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Orun Mooru narrates the story of Karounwi (Moses Olaiya), a basketmaker who lives in a fishing village. Flashback shows that he used to be a thriving businessman, until he was tricked by a Babalawo (herbalist) into believing that he could fill oil drums with money. Karounwi receives a loan of ₦500 from a friend. He loses all the money; half to a pickpocket, and the other half when his wife exchanged the drums he saved the money for new plates. This turn of events led him into committing suicide and he finds himself in the underworld. Iku (means: Death) tells him that he isn't ready for his coming, Karounwi then ascends to meet the Ayo (means: Joy), who then sends him off with two magical eggs and two of her disciples, to escort him back to earth. Upon reaching earth in a lavish mansion, Karounwi has sex with the two disciples from the underworld, then breaks one of the eggs, which transforms into a huge pile of money. He goes ahead to break the second egg, despite the standing instruction not to do so. Upon doing so, Death appears. Karounwi is seen coming into his shack in the fishing village. A flashback shows that he has been fished out of the water from under the bridge he had thrown himself to commit suicide. 

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Naples, eighteenth century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food. He seems to be the one reason of the typically happy and euphoric Neapolitan temperament and this upsets Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius. The evil witch decides to provide the poor minstrel with everything he wants and to suddenly take it all away from him, thus extinguishing the very last sparkle of joy in the city. To reach her devious goal, Vesuvia sends her clumsy, wannabe-actor servant Vincenzone to Naples, where he dresses up like an American lawyer and gives Totò a fake inheritance, consisting on nothing more than three old pots. Then he scares the horse of a beautiful French girl, Confiance, so that it runs in the wrong direction, thus allowing the encounter between the pretty girl and Totò, who instantly falls in love with her. The couple also saves a masked, hungry man called Pulcinella, who risked his life just to reach a nest of eggs on a cliff. After that, the girl is called by a man's voice and goes away in a rush, while Totò and Pulcinella stick together and start cooking the eggs, just to find out that the inherited pots are alive and magical. In fact, they can turn anything into a delicious meal. Totò decides to use this magical gift to help the needy, but Vesuvia sees to it that he's hired at Court. There he meets Mestolon, a nasty French cook who also happens to be Confiance's stepfather. Mestolon is very jealous of Totò, so he teams up with Vincenzone and boycotts a feast for the French royal family, which ends in a declaration of war to the Kingdom of Naples. Pulcinella suggests that if the king and queen of France have declared war for a revolting luncheon, a nice meal will end the battle. So Totò, Pulcinella, Confiance and the pots convince the people of Naples to enter the Vesuvius and to invent a new meal with the few ingredients they still have. After defeating Vesuvia, the Vesuvius becomes nothing more than a huge, innocuous oven, in which pizza is prepared for the very first time. After eating the first pizza in history, the king of France decides to end the war. In the end Totò and Confiance get married, as do Fefè and Scorfanette (the prince of Naples and the princess of France). 

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The series involves Shreemoyee protecting her daughter Tara, who is in great danger. 

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The film narrates the story of 2 friends Chandu and Saddam Hussein and the way everything changes once a Contessa comes into their lives 

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A police officer comes to the Spanish island of La Gomera to learn the language of El Silbo in order to free Zsolt, a controversial businessman arrested in Bucharest. 

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Riyaz (Hussain Sobah), a poor student, disturbed with the loud radio sports commentary played by Nisha (Mariyam Nisha), a rich student from the same college, involves in a heated argument with Nisha. Principal threatened to exile Riyaz but Nisha withdrew her complaint against him. Nisha apologizes to Riyaz and he accepts, resulting a friendship grow between them. Riyaz and Nisha rehearses for exam together and start spending more time with each other. On the day of exam, Riyaz was informed of his father's illness and quickly leaves to his island which results him missing the exam. Nisha spends the holiday at a resort. She misses Riyaz and it breaks her heart not hearing any news from him. Riyaz eavesdrops and hears his sister-in-law quarrel with his brother on Riyaz's accommodation at their house. Hence, he leaves them, transferring the properties of the house on their name while promising never to disturb them again. Nisha negotiates with his father and assures a post of receptionist for Riyaz from her father's resort. Riyaz and Nisha loves each other and initiate a romantic relationship. Nisha's childhood friend Hamid (Hamid Ali) who is secretly in love with Nisha, reveals their affair to Nisha's father. He embarrassed Riyaz in front of whole staff regarding his social status and forced Nisha to marry Hamid. Riyaz quits his job and moves back to Male'. On returning, Hamid hired a contract killer and Riyaz was blinded in an accident. He is being treated by a friendly doctor Seema (Aminath Rasheedha). Seema takes Riyaz to her home since the hospital cannot accommodate him any further. On Riyaz's request, Hamid informs to Nisha that Riyaz is dead in the accident. Seeing her devastated with the news, Hamid brings Nisha to Riyaz, whom she sees staged playing romance with Seema. Nisha eventually agrees to marry Hamid. To get relieved from his memories, Nisha and Hamid spent some days abroad. Riyaz get a job as a live singer at a resort. Nisha and Hamid visits the same resort which Riyaz was performing. After his performance she slaps Riyaz and torment him. Despite Riyaz's request, Seema quickly reveals the truth to Nisha. 

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The movie starts off with Yamuna (Nayanthara), who is a journalist. Not interested in marriage, she goes to her grandmother Parvathy's (Kulappulli Leela) house in the rural area of Tamil Nadu. Her grandmother, despite being blind, has a sharper vision than some normal people. Yamuna's pitches are mostly inspired by her grandmother. The movie then cuts and shows Amudhan (Kalaiyarasan), who is investigating a string of deaths that have been happening in the area throughout the movie. Meanwhile, Yamuna, Parvathy, Mani (Yogi Babu), and Mani's nephew Babloo (Ashwanth Ashokkumar) start making fake ghost videos on YouTube, which eventually catch public attention and go viral. The movie then shows Amudhan, who is on a lookout for a few people whom he met in the local bar. After enquiring in a few places, he finds out where the people live and goes to their houses. Suddenly, the same two people whom he had been looking for fall from the top of their apartment building to their deaths, which is actually the same way the other people have also died. Amudhan then climbs to the rooftop of the building, only to find nobody there. He then screams the name 'Bhavani'. The movie cuts back to Yamuna, who is suddenly being haunted by a ghost but is unsure who it is and why it is attacking her. One night, Yamuna sees her grandmother looking up at the CCTV cameras that Yamuna had fixed for her videos. Yamuna is taken aback by this and exits the room that she is in to check on her grandmother, who then gets dragged by the ghost to the garden area of the house and is attacked. Yamuna is also attacked this time. Yamuna then wakes up in a hospital and is greeted by her parents (Jayaprakash and Meera Krishnan). She asks her father about her grandmother's condition, to which he replies that she is alive but in a critical condition. Yamuna, who is still in the hospital, wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a butterfly, which leads her out of her room and to the hospital corridors. On the floor, she finds drawings on a cloth of the same butterfly, which happen to lead her to the lift and to her grandmother's hospital room. Yamuna then finds her grandmother dead and that her monitor is no longer beeping. The movie cuts to Amudhan, who is talking to the ghost, Bhavani (Nayanthara). He is telling her that revenge is not important and that she should not kill people anymore. Amudhan tries to tell Bhavani to stop, to which she replies by saying that her job is almost done, except for one thing: she needs to kill Yamuna. The next scene is at Parvathy's funeral, which takes place shortly after the hospital scene. Yamuna's parents are scolding Mani for making ghost videos on YouTube which eventually lead to Parvathy's death. Yamuna is then greeted by Babloo, who says that Bhavani is a very good person and that everyone killed her. Babloo's face then turns into ash, revealing that he was never there and that he is not Mani's nephew and that he is actually a ghost, as well. This causes Yamuna to do further research on both Babloo and Bhavani. At the same time, Amudhan tries to locate Yamuna in the odds of trying to save her from Bhavani. Sooner or later, Yamuna manages to find clues that lead her to Amudhan's house. While she tries to use a torchlight to see the interior of his home, Amudhan shows up, welcoming her into his home. Yamuna then asks Amudhan why Bhavani is trying to kill her. He says that he does not know but does tell Yamuna about Bhavani's past. During those days in India, especially in villages, it is customary for any family with girls to be wealthy, due to having to be able to afford marriage dowries. The scene starts with Bhavani's father crying while walking out of his house to inform his relatives that his wife has yet again given birth to another baby girl. Bhavani's father walks towards an old tractor and suddenly dies by a thunder attack. This incident causes the villagers to believe that it is because of Bhavani's ill fate. After this incident, Bhavani faces many fits of abuse and humiliations. She then meets Amudhan at school. He starts to love her by admiring her inner beauty. After Amudhan's father finds out about his relationship with Bhavani, he sends Amudhan to college elsewhere. Bhavani is left heartbroken and stays in her village. One night, Bhavani's brother-in-law (Nitish Veera) tries to misbehave with her, and despite being innocent, Bhavani's mother (Senthikumari) and sister ask her to leave, believing the lies of her brother-in-law. After being kicked out of her family, she moves to Chennai and does a few odd jobs at a hotel. One day, Bhavani happens to meet Amudhan at a restaurant. He takes her home and proposes to marry her, and she accepts it. On the day of her marriage, Bhavani finishes her shift and gets ready in her sari and proceeds to take the elevator in which Yamuna is present, yet, does not hold the door to let Bhavani in. This delays her arrival at the marriage registration office where Amudhan is waiting for her. Along the way, she encounters several people who mistreat and abuse her. She manages to overcome all of them. While crossing the road, she meets Babloo, who requests her to help him cross the street. As Bhavani and Babloo cross the street, a drunk lorry driver while talking over the phone hits them and causes their unfortunate deaths. After hearing her story, Yamuna reimagines how Bhavani's life could have turned out, if only she had waited for some time and let her come into the elevator that day. Feeling remorseful, she asks Bhavani's spirit what she wants, to which Bhavani says that she wants Yamuna's body to live with Amudhan, where Yamuna accepts it as a compensation for her mistake which acted as a contribution to Bhavani's death. Finally, Bhavani sets to use Yamuna's body to live with Amudhan, but Amudhan refuses to live with Bhavani, who's using Yamuna's body. Hence, Amudhan kills himself and tells Bhavani, while dying, that they now can live together in afterlife. Bhavani then leaves Yamuna's body. The film ends with Yamuna at Bhavani and Amudhan's graves, which are next to each other, while a red butterfly flies by the graves. 

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The main character, Muttuswami Aiyar, resident in Sirukalam, fights against rumours planted against him by some area women, including Ponammal, his sister-in-law. Gargi Bhattacharjee of The Telegraph describes Muttuswami as "rich, virtuous and god fearing". Blackburn's translation does not include a chapter in which Muttuswami has visions of a spiritual nature; Bhattacharjee stated that the content was "not essential to the development of the story." Bhattacharjee states that "The plot is fairly unremarkable." 

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Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel has been recently demoted from detective chief inspector on account of her planting evidence of child abuse on the computer of a suspected rapist (Jack Wallace) and as a result, he was freed from his sentence. The story involves Steel and Detective Constable 'Tufty' Quirrel tackling shoplifting crimes in Aberdeen whilst she is still stalking Wallace and accusing him of a series of rapes. Towards the end of the novel, it is revealed that Wallace was guilty of some of the rapes as he was working in a team of three. 

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In a session with his therapist, Eric Cartman expresses the difficulty he has been experiencing due to both the events of recent episodes and the behavior of the people around him. He says that he wishes he could simply be left alone with his cell phone. The psychologist diagnoses him with anxiety. To address his problem, Cartman purchases a Buddha Box, a cardboard box that he places on his head to help him relax, as it makes it easier for him to ignore the people around him causing his anxiety. Although this creates problems when he wears it in class and plays team sports, the popularity of the Buddha Box nonetheless spreads throughout the school and the town. His classmate Kyle Broflovski, however, grows increasingly irritated with Cartman's behavior while using the box and excoriates him for it, telling him that all people suffer from anxiety and simply adapt to it without annoying those around them. Cartman is shocked to learn this and has an epiphany. He goes to Mayor McDaniels and says that anxiety must be recognized as an epidemic, and that money must be raised to give all sufferers the tools they need to cope with it. When McDaniels asks him how he proposes they do this, Cartman simply speaks the Hindu greeting "Namaste", which he incorrectly interprets as "Fuck you too." Meanwhile, South Park Elementary administrators PC Principal and Vice Principal Strong Woman deal with the difficulty of raising their extremely politically correct infant quintuplets, which were conceived during their affair in the episode "Splatty Tomato". They decide against using a daycare center because they fear that if the public finds out that PC Principal is their father, this will threaten their "PC" and "Strong" reputations. When the couple learn about the Buddha Box, they begin using it too, though this leads them to neglect the quintuplets, who go missing. The children eventually come into contact with a record producer who has them produce a hit single under the group name "The PC Babies". When Principal and Woman learn this, they rush to the recording studio and are shocked to learn that in just one day, the babies have protested a bar, stopped construction of a problematic viaduct, and written a hit single about cultural appropriation. Realizing that they missed all this because they were on their cell phones, PC Principal and Strong Woman hold a community meeting where they tell members of the public to stop using Buddha Boxes and reduce their cell phone use. When the two administrators see that everyone is wearing Buddha Boxes and ignoring them, they realize that they are free to take their children out and spend time with them in public, as a proper family, without anyone discovering the truth about their parentage. 

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A childless couple persuade a college student to have their child. 

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Shot in a dramatic film format, Poacher tells the story of a desperate farmer who runs into trouble after stealing a stash of blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists. The film seeks to highlight the significant international issue of illegal ivory trade by addressing the plight of Africa's endangered elephant population. 

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The film revolves around a group of innocent villagers in a calm village known as Kochukadavu, which happened in 1996 after the arrack ban in kerala. The scenes are based on the escapades of a few characters who are desperate to have a drink, all the time. Patta Sisupalan Lal owned an arrack shop, which he had to close down due to the ban. Satyan Sunny Wayne is a youth fooling around with his gang of friends and is in love with Sisupalan’s daughter. The story goes along without any definite direction until a twist happens with a foreign lady’s arrival with a bottle of French wine. With a half-baked script, the effort is to bring in laughs with comical situations and one liners. 

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A group of eight friends go on a picnic to a nearby uninhabited island. They start roaming around the island having fun and playing sports. They encounter a man whose name is Hamid (Hamid Ali), who has been living on the island in a hut. He warns the group to return their home before night falls. Things fall apart when Azmee (Ali Ahmed) teases his crush Husna (Sheereen Abdul Wahid) who is in a relationship with Dhaain (Mohamed Shavin). Due to low-tide, they were unable to travel back by sea hence they decided to stay on the island for the night and leave at the earliest light. After the planned night fishing, they spent the rest of the night barbecuing and enjoying horror stories. On exchanging stories, Hamid tells a true incident that had occurred on the island. Several years ago, Hamid's son, Eevan (Yoosuf Shafeeu) discovers his girlfriend, Taniya (Khadheeja Ibrahim Didi) is having affairs with other men. Having possessed by a spirit inside him, Eevan stabs Taniya killing her. Discovering that he killed Taniya by his own hands, Eevan undergoes a mental breakdown. Hamid brings him to the island where they are currently staying, to distract him and separate him from the society and dies there. Unaish goes to the boat to fetch a torch and is killed by an unknown spirit. Distressed of Unaish's absence, Dhaain goes to the place where the boat was placed and discovers the boat is missing. The whole group gathers to the beach only to find the boat sunk in the sea while Unaish's torch on the ground. They are unable to call anyone due to no connection or signal for their mobile phones. The group encounters several horrifying incidents. Reena (Nadhiya Hassan) disappears and the event links up with Azmee. Perturbed with their disappearing the group continuously kept searching for them in the woods only to find Unaish's corpse lying in the bush. They later uncover Reena and Hamid's bodies beaten to death. Suspicious of Azmee's involvement in all deaths, Dhaain ties him up to a tree, only to witness Yooshau's death. One by one, members of the group is murdered including Dhaain, Husna and Husham. After the panicking events, a boat sees Taniya and Azmee waving on the island and comes to rescue them. Fearing they will not survive, Azmee rushes into the island to distract the spirit. He was able to come back to the time the boat reaches the shore and so is followed by the spirit. 

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Giuseppe, psychologist and professor of sex education, thinks to be the punisher of society against hypocrisy. A day, in a private club, he meets Francesca, Riccardo's wife, and has a relationship with her. 

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Sajimon (Vishnu Unnikrishnan) has many desires, but things go wrong for him. The film follows his romantic relationships. Sajimon tells stories of his relationships to his wife Haritha (Akhila Nath) on his wedding night. Sajimon describes his romance with Nithya (Jayashree Sivadas). His classmate Joby (Basil Joseph) helps Sajimon to win her love. During his college days, Sajimon falls in love with Surumi (Sivakami). Vasu (Indrans) and Omana (Manju Pillai), who are the parents of Sajimon, provide comedy scenes. 

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The series follows the hidden lives of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States during World War II. The drama switches its scenes between various locations in France, Britain, Germany and Poland. It features repeated visits to Paris, Warsaw, Manchester, Berlin and Dunkirk. 

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16-year-old Monroe "Mo" Harris is escorted out of class by a police officer. When Mo was younger, his older sister Kate dated her classmate Zeke Presanti. Even after Kate broke up with him, Zeke and Mo remained close friends, despite their age difference. Mo’s parents, Reuben and Sherri, allow Mo to continue hanging out with Zeke despite their concern about Zeke's influence on their son. Zeke, now 23, works a dead-end job and spends most of his time smoking marijuana and drinking. Mo spends most of his time with Zeke, his friends, and his girlfriend Holly rather than anyone his own age. Zeke helps Mo acquire drinks for a senior party after being invited by fellow sophomore Stacey, and gives Mo some weed to sell to the other kids. This earns Mo credibility among the seniors at the party. Mo also sees his classmate Sophie there, and they strike up a conversation and exchange numbers. Mo later takes Sophie out on a dinner date before taking her back to Zeke’s place to hang out. Before Sophie leaves, she and Mo kiss. This earns him the nickname "Tongue Daddy" from his friends, which Zeke tattoos on his chest. Mo comes home accidentally stoned the next night before a family dinner, and, after his father finds out about this and his tattoo, Mo is grounded and forbidden from hanging out with Zeke. Mo continues to supply drugs and alcohol at the parties. Though he has doubts about his actions, Zeke encourages him to and continues to supply him, even quitting his job due to the amount of money Mo makes off of selling. Mo begins to ignore Sophie, per Zeke's advice on how to get girls, which makes her mad. After realizing his mistake, he tries to explain himself but she refuses to listen and walks out on him. Mo gets a call from Holly and he goes over to her place. Holly tells him that she and Zeke have broken up because he was cheating and she takes Mo's virginity. After the break-up, Zeke spends his night getting drunk and high, and sings in a karaoke bar. Stacey drives into a ditch with a few seniors who are smoking and drinking and abandons his car. The next day, a police officer comes to school and interrogates him, telling him he won’t get in trouble if he reveals who supplied the drugs they found in the car. When the cops show up at a party looking for Mo, Zeke manages to get him out and bring Mo back to his place. Mo cries about how he has become a degenerate like Zeke, even though he never wanted to be. He also admits to Zeke that he slept with Holly, but Zeke forgives him and the two reconcile. Zeke offers to take the fall, but Mo declines his offer, saying Zeke has done enough and he needs to handle this on his own. The following day, Mo is escorted out of class, gets expelled from school, and is sentenced to community service. Reuben drives to Zeke’s house and orders him to stay away from Mo. Three months later, Mo stops at a fast-food restaurant one day and is surprised to see Zeke working at the drive-thru window. Mo sits with Zeke inside to catch up. Zeke asks Mo if he wants to hang out the next day and Mo says that maybe they can. Mo drives away, leaving Zeke behind. 

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A witch named Mohini (Reyhna Pandit) has waited for her unrequited love of 500 years, Rana Saa, who has been reborn as Ram (Ankit Siwach). Ram is a businessman who lives with his wife, Siya (Garima Singh Rathore), and his half brother, Vivian. Ram and Siya were on the verge of divorce. However, when Siya learns of Mohini, she decides not to divorce Ram to save him. 

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Ingrid is a young Swedish woman residing with her American uncle Carl at his farm in rural Northern California. One night, a local young girl is murdered with a pair of scissors by an unknown assailant. Her killing baffles the town locals. Meanwhile, Bill Spry, a new addition to the church choir in which Ingrid sings, takes an interest in Ingrid, but she is evasive. En route home one night, Ingrid is attacked by a masked figure, but manages to escape. The attack triggers memories of Ingrid's sexual molestation by her father, and the subsequent suicide of her mother. Later that evening, a local woman, Nell, is attacked and murdered in her car following an angry interaction with Bill at a tavern. The following morning, Ingrid finds Nell's mutilated body on the farm; she has been stabbed with a pair of scissors. After police remove the body and interview her, Ingrid is left alone at the farmhouse. While she takes a shower, a town butcher, Frankie, breaks in and attacks her before raping her. Carl returns home in the middle of the assault, but is unaware it is happening. Frankie threatens Ingrid before leaving the house. The next evening, Ingrid prays at the local church, but is interrupted when Frankie arrives to confess his transgression to the vicar. Ingrid leaves, and Frankie again attacks her outside, but the rape is thwarted when the vicar hears her screaming. Ingrid is hospitalized and visited by Sheriff Peterson; outside her room, the vicar informs Sheriff Peterson that his daughter, Loretta, is carrying Frankie's child. Peterson quickly drives to Frankie's house and attacks him, handcuffing him to a pipe and chastising Loretta. Meanwhile, local police encounter a masked assailant attack a woman on the street, and chase after him. Just before he is about to arrest Frankie for the killings, Peterson receives a phone call on Frankie's landline from deputies notifying him they have cornered the killer at the saw mill. The assailant is shot dead, and when unmasked, revealed as Bill. That night, Ingrid sees news footage notifying residents that Bill was the killer. Shortly after, Frankie arrives at the house, binding and gagging Carl. Ingrid attacks Frankie with a fire poke before stabbing him to death. Carl dissuades her from contacting the police and buries Frankie, but Ingrid flees to the police station anyway to explain what happened. The next morning, Peterson and the deputies search the property; Carl has fled, and only Ingrid is there. During the search, Peterson is startled to see Frankie arrive at the house; simultaneously, the deputies find Ingrid's goat buried in a shallow grave in the yard. Peterson goes upstairs to confront Ingrid, and finds her dead in the bathroom of suicide. At Ingrid's funeral, Carl, who appears older, meets Peterson, and the two depart together. Peterson explains to Carl that Ingrid's alleged attacks from Frankie were hallucinations, and that the physical evidence collected after them showed no evidence of Frankie being at the scene; additionally, her autopsy confirmed she was a virgin. Carl explains that he has not visited her in a very long time, suggesting that their encounters were also imaginary. He then returns to the farmhouse and enters the bathroom. Steam suddenly fills the room, and Ingrid's apparition appears behind him in the vanity reflection. 

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A young woman plans to propose marriage to her girlfriend while attending her family's annual holiday party. At the party, she realizes her girlfriend hasn't come out to her conservative parents yet. 

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The novel alternates between the perspectives of three women, presented as portions of a manuscript written by one (the Ardua Hall Holograph) and testimonies by the other two. Lydia, a divorced judge, is imprisoned with other women in a stadium during the establishment of Gilead. After enduring weeks of squalid conditions and solitary confinement, she and a small group of other women are handpicked by Commander Judd and Vidala, a pre-existing supporter of Gilead, to become Aunts—an elite group of women tasked with creating and overseeing the laws and uniforms governing Gilead's women. The Aunts use Ardua Hall as their headquarters and enjoy certain privileges that include reading "forbidden" texts, such as Cardinal John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua. In secret, Aunt Lydia despises Gilead and becomes a mole supplying critical information to the Mayday resistance organization. Fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, a girl named Agnes Jemima is growing up in Boston as the adopted daughter of Commander Kyle and his wife Tabitha. Agnes has a loving relationship with Tabitha, who later dies of ill health. Agnes and her classmates Becka and Shunammite attend an elite preparatory school for the daughters of Commanders, where they are taught to run a household, but not to become literate. Once widowed, Commander Kyle marries Paula, the widow of a deceased Commander, who despises Agnes. She acquires a Handmaid to conceive a child (a son, Mark) for herself, and arranges for Agnes to be married to Commander Judd, now a high-ranking official in charge of the Eyes and surveilling the population of Gilead. Agnes later learns that she is the daughter of a Handmaid. She manages to escape her arranged marriage by becoming a Supplicant, a prospective Aunt. In that pursuit she joins Becka, whose father—Doctor Grove, a prominent dentist—has been sexually abusing her and his other underage female patients for years. Later, Agnes is anonymously provided with files highlighting the corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of Gilead, specifically evidence of adultery between Commander Kyle and Paula and their respective uxoricide and mariticide of their spouses (divorce having been prohibited in Gilead). She also learns that she is the half-sister of "Baby Nicole," a girl who was smuggled out of Gilead to Canada by her Handmaid mother when she was young (and whose return the government of Gilead has been demanding). Meanwhile, a girl named Daisy—several years younger than Agnes—grows up in Toronto's Queen Street West with her adoptive parents, Neil and Melanie. The couple owns a second-hand clothes shop serving as a front for Mayday to smuggle women out of Gilead. On her 16th birthday, Daisy's adoptive parents are murdered by undercover Gilead operatives. Daisy is spirited into hiding by several Mayday operatives, who reveal that Daisy is actually Nicole. The Mayday operatives enlist her in a mission to infiltrate Gilead in order to obtain valuable intelligence from their mysterious mole. Nicole poses as a street urchin Jade in order to be recruited by the Pearl Girls (Gilead missionaries who lure foreign women to Gilead with the promise of a better life), who takes her up and brings her into Gilead. The disguised Nicole is placed under the care of Agnes and Becka, who are now respectively named Aunts Victoria and Immortelle. Aunt Lydia confirms that "Jade" is Nicole through a tattoo and discloses her true identity and parentage to Agnes and Becka. Revealing herself as Mayday's mole, Aunt Lydia enlists the three young women to smuggle incriminating information about Gilead's elite into Canada. Nicole is tasked with carrying the files inside a microdot on her tattoo. Agnes and Nicole are to enter Canada disguised as Pearl Girls, with Nicole impersonating Becka. The real Becka, disguised as Jade, is to remain at the Hall and provide a diversion once Nicole was found missing. Forced to hasten their plans when Commander Judd learns about Nicole's presence, Agnes and Nicole set out early, travelling by bus, then by boat along the Penobscot River. This boat takes them to a larger vessel which brings them into Canadian waters. Agnes and Nicole manage to reach Campobello Island by an inflatable and picked up by a Mayday team. Using the information inside Nicole's microdot, the Canadian media leaks scandalous information about Gilead's elite, which leads to a purge that in turn causes a military coup, bringing about the collapse of Gilead and the subsequent restoration of the United States. Agnes and Nicole are reunited with their mother. Meanwhile, Aunt Lydia commits suicide by overdosing herself with morphine before she can be arrested and executed. Becka died while hiding in a cistern to perpetuate the ruse that "Jade" had run off with a plumber. The novel concludes with a metafictional epilogue, described as a partial transcript at the Thirteenth Symposium on Gileadean Studies in 2197 spoken by Professor James Darcy Pieixoto. He talks about the challenges in verifying the authenticity of the Ardua Hall Holograph and the two witness transcripts by Agnes and Nicole. He also speculates that Agnes and Nicole's Handmaid mother could be Offred of the previous book, though he himself admits for not being sure. He concludes by mentioning the statue that was made commemorating Becka for her actions. 

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Stahl orders Zobelle released from prison, as he is an FBI informant with information on several high-up players in government and in the Aryan Brotherhood. Zobelle refuses police escort, and the Mayans arrive in Charming to protect their investment in him. Zobelle's plans to skip town are delayed while Polly says goodbye to Edmond. Weston is also released, as Chuck's testimony is deemed unreliable because he is an ex- felon. Weston retrieves his children from state custody and uses their presence to protect himself from SAMCRO's reprisal. SAMCRO is able to isolate him in the bathroom of a tattoo parlor, where Jax kills him with a silenced pistol. Cameron Hayes calls his son Edmond, and orders him to kill Agent Stahl to prove his loyalty to the IRA. Edmond retrieves a gun hidden in his bathroom, but fails to execute. Stahl kills him when he attempts to run, then texts Cameron from his phone claiming that the deed is done. Meanwhile, Gemma spots Polly shopping for flowers and follows her to Edmond's home. Polly goes inside and sees Edmond's body, and when Gemma follows her in with her gun drawn, Polly assumes that Gemma killed Edmond and tries to shoot her. Gemma shoots Polly in the chest before the latter can, killing her, and Stahl emerges, offering Gemma a chance to get out before she is pursued. As Gemma turns to leave, Stahl tosses Gemma her own 9mm, and Gemma catches it instinctively. Stahl trains Polly's pistol on Gemma and tells her to drop the gun; Stahl plans to use Gemma's fingerprints to frame her for both deaths. Gemma calls Unser, who picks her up before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ATF can. Zobelle and the Mayans leave without Polly; SAMCRO takes off in hot pursuit. When Stahl reports the killing of Polly and Edmond over the radio, Cameron Hayes overhears over the report on a police scanner. Seeking revenge, he goes to Jax's house, holds up Tara, and kidnaps Abel. When Half- Sack tries to stop him, he is stabbed in the stomach. Jax arrives to find Sack dead, Tara tied up, and Abel missing. He calls Clay, who pulls the rest of the men pursuing Zobelle to rescue his grandchild. They chase Hayes to a marina, but it is too late: Hayes has disembarked in his gunrunning boat, Abel in tow. 

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The film is set during the Tokugawa period. Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo Province., falls ill in the spring of the 18th year of the Kan'ei era. Tadatoshi and his son Mitsunao both forbid Tadatoshi's vassals from committing seppuku, yet after Tadatoshi's death his vassals one by one commit junshu loyalty suicide out of a sense of duty to their lord. The only one who obeys his lord's last wish is Abe Yaichi'emon. After he is treated as a coward by his comrades he also commits seppuku to honor his family. Mitsunao, who has succeeded his father and is now the new feudal lord, punishes the Abe clan for Yaichi'emon's failure to obey this order. The Abe clan shuts itself up in its manor in protest of the unfair treatment as Mituano's troops approach. 

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Set during the Tokugawa period, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo Province, falls ill but forbids his vassals from committing seppuku after he dies. They all defy his request and after Abe Yaichi'emon, the last loyal holdout, also commits seppuku, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son and the new feudal lord, punishes the Abe clan for Yaichi'emon's disobedience. 

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Mara Childs (Alice Englert) is a Pentecostal pastor's daughter raised in a remote community in Appalachia. To her father's pleasure, she is being seriously courted by one of his parishioners, Garret (Lewis Pullman). However, unknown to everyone, Mara is pregnant by Augie (Thomas Mann) who has abandoned the church. Under pressure from her community and her father, Mara decides to accept Garret's proposal. Mara's father Lemuel (Walton Goggins) runs a sect that incorporates snake handling into his preaching. After a minor dies while handling snakes, Lemuel is warned that the police are investigating him. He allows Garret to claim the snakes are his and lose his job to protect his congregation. Before marriage, Mara's virginity is checked by Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), Augie's mother. Hope realizes that not only is Mara not a virgin, she is pregnant, as well. Hope decides to keep Mara's pregnancy a secret from Lemuel and Garret, but informs Augie and urges him to repent. In an attempt to reunite with Mara, Augie attends church and pretends to have a spiritual awakening. Lemuel then urges him to handle a snake which proceeds to bite him. Augie begs to be allowed to go to a hospital but is denied by Lemuel and his own family. After he attempts to save himself by cutting the poison out of his arm, he and Mara have a moment together. They are found lying together by Garret who warns Mara to never see Augie again. The following day Augie's condition has worsened. After hearing the news, Mara informs her friend, Dilly (Kaitlyn Dever), that she is pregnant with Augie's child. Dilly then informs Garret who attempts to rape Mara. He is stopped by Lemuel, but before Lemuel throws him out Garret informs Lemuel of Mara's pregnancy. To cleanse Mara, Lemuel takes Mara to church and has her handle a snake. At the same time, Augie's parents, aware that he is close to death, decide to perform an amputation at home. Mara survives her encounter with the snake, but despite earning her father's approval she decides to leave him to help Augie who is still sick after the amputation. With his parents’ permission, Mara leaves with Augie to take him to a doctor, promising them that she will always be there for him. 

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Shy and nerdy teenager Adam spends his last high school summer in NYC with his older sister, who is part of the local lesbian and trans activist scene. In this coming-of-age indie comedy, Adam, along with the people around him, discover love, friendship and hard truths. 

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Nina (played by Avril Nyambura) is a woman born and raised in the slums of Nairobi. She meets Hinga (played by Innocent Mungai), a man from a decent background with a good job, who is stranded with a flat tire near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and together with her gang, they rob him of all his valuables. In a twist of fate, the two eventually fall in love, despite the fact that Hinga is engaged to Ciru (Maureen Njau), a demanding and controlling woman of his same societal background. Hinga eventually helps Nina to track down his valuables as well as evade the authorities. 

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A group of old friends and their partners meet up one evening for a dinner party hosted by Marie and Vincent. A rare lunar eclipse is also expected to occur on the same evening. At the dinner table, after hearing of Ben's questionably humorous story of a woman who found out about her husband's extramarital affairs only upon his death at the hospital after looking through the messages on his unlocked mobile phone, the group then starts discussing their phone lock settings and sharing information on their phones with their partners. To spice up the dinner, Marie then suggests a game where everyone surrenders their phones to the centre of the table and any messages, emails, or calls received on anyone's phone would have to be shared with everyone else. As the game progresses, more secrets begin to unravel, putting doubts on their friendships and marriages. 

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The film follows the life of musician Nick Koenig, better known as Hot Sugar. He creates his music by using the sounds around him. Having broken up with rapper girlfriend Kitty, he goes to Paris in search of unique sounds. 

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The book initially takes place in the modern day, when Yang, an aspiring artist, who had recently graduated from university, goes to her parents' residence in Carmel, California, to escape a former boyfriend and stalker she names "Rotten Egg". \- Posted online on December 22, 2010. Her father, Zu-Wu Joseph Yang, tells her about the life of her grandfather in Mainland China and how the family was affected by the Second Sino-Japanese War/World War II as well as the Chinese Civil War and subsequent establishment of the People's Republic of China. Her grandfather fought in the first conflict while in Manchuria. Ryan Holmberg of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art stated that the author "is predictably and entirely unsympathetic to the Communists." The story alternates between the past and the present day. Holmberg described it as "symptomatically a book without a present tense" as Yang only briefly lived in Asia. 

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Sawyer Scott, a senior at Centre College, receives an offer for a job interview taking place the day before Thanksgiving in Washington, DC. Embarrassed that she may not get the job, Sawyer decides to skip Thanksgiving with her family and travel to the interview without telling anyone about her plans. After encountering holiday traffic on I-64, she takes an alternate route, but finds part of it closed off. Traveling even deeper into the Appalachian forest, Sawyer eventually turns around, but is spotted by brothers Hollister and Buck, who are burying a body. Concerned she might have seen them, the brothers follow Sawyer and find her studying a paper map. Initially offering help, the brothers soon become hostile when Sawyer rejects their invitation to dinner, and try to grab her. Sawyer manages to escape into the woods, stabbing Buck in the abdomen with his own knife, but is stabbed in the thigh in the process. The brothers pursue her for a short distance, but turn back as night falls. Disoriented and injured, Sawyer spends the night in a ravine. After receiving an abandoned vehicle report about Sawyer's Jeep, county Sheriff O'Doyle questions Hollister and Buck, known local troublemakers, but they deny involvement with Sawyer's disappearance. The brothers later return to Sawyer's vehicle and dispose of it over an embankment in the woods, resuming their search for her. Sawyer finds the wreckage of her car and discovers her cell phone, but the phone has a dying battery and no cellular reception. Suffering from hunger, dehydration, and blood loss, Sawyer loses consciousness near a dumping ground in the woods and is discovered by Lowell, a meth cook who is cousin to Hollister and Buck. Lowell treats Sawyer's wounded leg and offers her food and water, but binds her with ropes after she throws lye in his face in an attempt to escape. The brothers arrive to discuss Lowell's upcoming batch of meth, but are suspicious when Lowell does not allow them inside and denies knowledge of Sawyer's whereabouts. After the brothers leave, Lowell explains that he is not holding Sawyer hostage, but has no car and is waiting for the brothers to travel to Charleston to deliver the batch of meth so that he can borrow their pickup and take her to safety. Sawyer relaxes and bonds with Lowell over a discussion of the chemistry involved with cooking meth, helping him prepare the batch. At the sheriff's office, O'Doyle warns deputy Katz to ignore the missing vehicle report and mentions that the vehicle has "moved on," but allows Katz to contact the registered owner to put his mind at ease. When Kentucky State Police commander Slattery arrives, Katz relays the information he has gathered about Sawyer's disappearance. Slattery expresses displeasure with O'Doyle's handling of the case and demands action, angering O'Doyle. O'Doyle returns to Hollister and Buck and threatens them to find Sawyer, revealing his involvement with their meth operation. After Katz overhears a phone call between O'Doyle and the brothers, he tries to take the sheriff into custody, but O'Doyle kills him and has the brothers dispose of his body. When Slattery returns, O'Doyle "discovers" Sawyer's wallet that he planted in Katz's locker, implicating him in her disappearance and covering up Katz's murder. While Slattery mobilizes the state police, taking over the investigation from O'Doyle, the sheriff leaves to help with the brothers' meth delivery, planning to upstage the drug cartel that has been moving into the region. The brothers arrive at Lowell's to pick up the batch of meth and discover Sawyer with him. Lowell claims he has Sawyer "trained," instructing her to microwave a cup of coffee for him from a thermos earlier seen to contain anhydrous ammonia. The microwave explodes, killing Buck and badly injuring Lowell and Hollister, but Lowell shields Sawyer from a majority of the blast. Sawyer escapes while the trailer burns and Lowell struggles to overpower Hollister. O'Doyle arrives and kills both cousins, then finds Sawyer fleeing and picks her up. Sawyer recognizes O'Doyle's voice and realizes his intentions are hostile, tipping him off. O'Doyle leads her to the titular Rust Creek and tries to drown her, but she manages to stab him in the face and chest with a weeding fork she slipped from Lowell's trailer earlier. Finally free of her pursuers, Sawyer limps with determination down the road as multiple state police cruisers converge behind her. 

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Jax is distraught in the wake of Abel's disappearance. Hale is moving into the office of the chief, a position that he states will soon be official. His brother, Jacob, apologizes for bringing Zobelle to Charming, and states that he never intended things to escalate as far as they did. Jacob also tells Hale that he is continuing with his campaign to be mayor of Charming, and asks for "the support of the chief." Hale agrees to support his brother. As the Sons go out to look for Cameron, he remains neutral. Jax attempts to break up with Tara because he believes he is ruining her life, but she remains loyal to him and refuses to leave. SAMCRO buries Half-Sack with over 50 full-patch members from California, Washington, Nevada, and Oregon as well as numerous former military colleagues in attendance. A three-piece kutte is draped over his casket during the service, implying that SAMCRO posthumously patched him in. At the wake, Clay tells Jax that he has to be strong to inspire his SAMCRO brothers. Hale keeps vigil over Half-Sack's funeral which is being attended by numerous Sons Of Anarchy members and associates. Jacob meets him there and reiterates his disgust for the gang and the apparent outpouring of support for them. Hale explains that people, including those in Charming, don't like to see SAMCRO vulnerable since it makes everyone uncomfortable. Later into the funeral, an unknown party, later revealed to be the Calaveras MC, commits a drive-by shooting, injuring and killing several attendees. Hale tries to stop them by getting in front of their van and firing at the driver, but is killed when the vehicle runs him over. Jacob and Unser both futilely rush towards his bloodied body as the van speeds off. When a woman's son is shot in the drive-by after the wake, Jax finally loses it and continually bashes the gunman's head into the pavement until his fellow Sons pull him away. In an interview, series creator and executive producer, Kurt Sutter, explained that the decision to kill Hale in the season premiere was motivated by Sheridan's desire to move on to another project.Rob Owen 'Sons of Anarchy' shocker (spoiler for West coast). blogs.sites.post-gazette.com. September 7, 2010 

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At her wedding, Uma is toasted by her guests who compliment her new attitude. Later, she is pinned to a bed by her husband, Son, who says she is much more obedient than she used to be. Two months earlier, Uma awakens in a strange room and realises she is trapped on an island called Paradise. She runs away from her captors, but is caught and returned by Amarna. It is explained to Uma that she has been sent to a sort of treatment centre for rebellious young women, in Uma's case because she has rejected a marriage proposal her mother wants her to accept. Uma becomes friends with her roommates Chloe and Yu, as well as befriending Amarna, who is a well-known singer whose management team want to keep her in line. As Uma adjusts to life on the island, her boyfriend from the mainland, Markus, crashes the island pretending to be an orderly and promising he can rescue her. A jealous Amarna tells Uma to be careful and reveals that she has her own secret plan to escape as her fans have smuggled her a rowboat she and Uma can use to leave. Before they can put their plan into action, Amarna is told she has graduated early. She tells Uma to rescue herself and Markus. Before she leaves, Amarna also reveals that the girls are being drugged so they sleep through the night. After a treatment during which Uma is forced to watch old news reports of her father's suicide, Uma reacts badly and is drugged. She awakens two weeks later. The Duchess, who runs the Paradise program, informs Uma that she will be returned home the next day. Deeply suspicious, Uma decides to leave and convinces Chloe and Yu to run away with her in the night. Before they can escape, Yu is taken away by orderlies in the night for a final treatment. When Uma and Chloe try to rescue her, the doctors operating on Yu attempt to kill them. Uma, Chloe and a badly injured Yu manage to escape. They stumble into a control room where they learn that their therapy has not been to rehabilitate them, but to replicate them. Uma learns that Markus never intended to rescue her, but was used to determine her behaviour in sexual situations. As Uma and her friends run from the guards, they stumble into a room where they meet their replicants; women from poor social circumstances who have undergone extensive surgeries and studied in order to act as more obedient versions of the women they are replacing. Yu dies and Chloe and Uma are forced to move on without her, but before they go, Uma leaves behind her memory locket of her father for her replacement and tells her that in order to fully embody Uma, she must hate Son, the man responsible for her father's death. Uma and Chloe make their way into a garden where they see the lifeless bodies of former Paradise girls ensnarled in the leaves, including Amarna. Uma sees the Duchess feeding on Chloe's body and is wrapped up in vines as the Duchess prepares to make her her next victim. However, Uma's replicant saves her by pretending to be the real Uma, distracting the Duchess enough so that Uma can stab her with a scalpel. Uma and her replicant, Ana, manage to escape in the rowboat. Ana reveals she cannot return to her former life and so she and Uma develop a plan. Ana returns to Uma's wealthy family pretending to be Uma, and marries Son. On their wedding night, she remains downstairs while Uma herself goes to Son and seduces him, stabbing him before they can have sex. Ana is thus free from blame as she was downstairs among many witnesses when the murder occurred. Ana "discovers" Son's body and screams for help, now free to live her life as a wealthy widow. Uma, having secured her revenge, flees into the night. 

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Grant and Kane play a pair of incestuous sisters who live together in a house that is falling apart in the Hollywood Hills. Their house was formerly owned by their late anthropologist father. Ellen (Grant), an astronomer, tries her best to take care of Sissy (Kane), a mentally ill eccentric who enjoys keeping her pet "mafus" (apes) in a cage in their living room. None of the mafus last long, given Sissy's violent outbursts. 

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On the first day, after Yang Fei died, he went to the funeral parlour to be cremated, but no urn was prepared for him and no cemetery, so he left the waiting hall and tried to recall the last scene before he died. He remembered he was sitting in the Tan Jia Cai restaurant when he read the report of his ex-wife, Li Qing, cut her wrist suicide at home in the bathtub. At this time the restaurant kitchen caught fire, his memory stopped with a loud bang. On the second day, he met his ex-wife, Li Qing, who rejected many chasers but married him. However, Li Qing divorced with him and married a new man because Li Qing wanted to get higher achievement on her business. They brought up the memory and Li Qing told Yang Fei that he was the only husband she had. Finally, she left and rushed to her funeral. On the third day, Yang Fei continued to wander on the street, he remembered his adoptive father Yang Jinbiao who found him as a newborn baby at the edge of the railway track. Yang Jinbiao raised him up alone and even rejected his girlfriend because of Yang Fei. One day Yang Fei's biological mother found him and brought him to his original family. However, he returned after few days. When Yang Jinbiao knew his disease could not stay for a long time, he left secretly. Yang Fei kept looking for his father for a long time. When he returned from his father's hometown, his nursing mother Li Yuezhen was dead. On the fourth day, Yang Fei met Mouse Girl. She and her boyfriend Wu Chao were the neighbor of Yang Fei in the rental house. It was a big news when Mouse Girl suicided because her boyfriend gave her the fake Iphone 4S as her birthday gift, she jumped off from the top of the Pengfei Building. Mouse Girl led Yang Fei to the land of unburied, and Yang Fei kept looking for his father there. On the fifth day, Yang Fei met a lot of familiar people in the land of unburied, including the girl he was gonna to teach and Tan Jiaxin's family. Then he met Li Yuezhen there, she told him the truth that his father is the receptionist at the funeral parlour, and his father actually went to the stone where he left Yang Fei once. On the sixth day, after Mouse Girl heard Wu Chao's story from Xiao Qing, she knew Wu Chao sold his kidney to buy her a cemetery. Mouse Girl decided to return to the cemetery Wu Chao bought for her, she became the first person who left the land of unburied. All the deads at the land of unburied baptized Mouse Girl and walked to the funeral parlour with her. On the seventh day, Yang Fei finally meets his father at the funeral parlour. On the way he back to the land of unburied, he met Wu Chao, who was looking for his girlfriend. Yang Fei told Wu Chao that Mouse Girl went to the cemetery, and Yang Fei brought Wu Chao to the land of unburied. 

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On 12 Shawwal 1420, a group of six colleagues go on a picnic to an uninhabited island rumored to be cursed where horrifying incidents occur for the 13th, 14th and 15th of each month. The island was restricted from visiting for the past ten years, but permitted for a special request from Fasee (Ibrahim Jihad). On arrival they are welcomed by Shathir, a notable historian, who came to the island to prepare a thesis for his PhD. After refreshing, the group dispersed around the island exploring and enjoying the view. The group includes four lovers; Neena (Khadheeja Ibrahim Didi) and Riyaz (Ahmed Shah), Fasee and Nasra (Nashidha Mohamed) and two exes; Nihan (Mohamed Manik) and Malakaa (Sheela Najeeb). During the stay, they met with some unusual incidents which the group differs to believe; Malakaa presumably seeing a human skull while Neena and Riyaz felt a strange cooling breeze rushed over them after they had an intimate moment. After dinner, Riyaz and Neena planned to scare rest of the group by wearing a mask. The plan was going smooth till Neena fells upon the same skull Malakaa mentioned and she failed to remove the mask off her face. She was killed by the spirit and the group splits into two searching for her. Riyaz and Shathir finds Neena hanging on tree with the mask on. The duo ran for their lives when the spirit pulled Riyaz's leg and drowned him into the sea. Shathir was able to save himself since he was wearing an amulet on his waist. He recalls having the knowledge that the spirit has a connection with the moon; once a cloud shadows over the moon, her supernatural powers strengthen. Shathir went back to his tent to fetch his research documents. Quarrel within the group arises when Nihan suspects Shathir is hiding several facts from them. Shathir inform them that the island was believed to be haunted and the island disappears during this period. The group leave together to search the skull which Malakaa found. However, the team separates while Fasee and Nasra were ultimately killed. Nihan and Shathir engages in a fight and breaks his amulet. Shathir snatches the amulet from him and breaks Nihan's leg. Shathir discovers the skull and finds out the truth about the island; a man killed his wife when she finds out about his extramarital affairs and buried her in the island. Shathir was murdered while holing the skull. Malakaa and Nihan locates a wood pallet and they tries to swim off but Nihan falls off the pallet and dies while Malakaa makes it off the shore. She was awake mentally retarded with no prior memories, lying on the pallet in the middle of the sea. 

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The main character, Nikki Grewal, is a 22-year-old woman in London, who dropped out of law school and works at O’Reilly's pub, going against the expectations of her Punjabi Sikh family. Nikki is intrigued when her sister Mindi, a nurse who is making enough money to support herself, chooses to do an arranged marriage. \- Print date: April 1, 2017. She chooses to become a creative writing teacher, for the Sikh Community Association, located in Southall. Her students, older women whose husbands had died, have difficulties with English. The women begin to tell stories about their sexual lives after they encounter a copy of Red Velvet: Pleasurable Stories for Women that Nikki brought. 

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The show narrated the story of Guddan Gupta, a kind-hearted girl living in Indore, who in order to save her step-sister's life married a billionaire and famous cook, Akshat Jindal. Guddan lost her mother at a very young age and was brought up by her loving father Bhushan Gupta and stepmother Kaushlya Gupta who strongly disliked her. In a series of flashbacks, it was revealed that Guddan considers herself guilty of not being able to save her birth mother. Her stepmother left no chance trying to put Guddan down and accused her of being an incompetent human being by telling her "Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega". Guddan's support system in her family was her father, Bhushan Gupta, and step-sister Revati Gupta. On the other hand, Akshat Jindal, a widower, is one of India's most famous and respected chefs who lost his first wife very early in a traumatic accident which made him get cocooned in his own world. He was a very serious-no nonsense kind of person who does not believe in emotions. He was also a father figure for his three nephews (off-springs of his elder brother Avinash Jindal) and their respective wives. They both loved and feared him and called him AJ since he was too young to be called sasurji/papa. When Guddan married Akshat, even though Akshat did not love her and used to get irritated by her antics, he protected her and supported her when needed. As a result, she slowly regained her confidence and started believing in herself. He also started experiencing emotions which he couldn't seem to name. In the early stages of their marriage, Akshat thought that Guddan married him through deceit for his money, so he didn't trust her. But as they started living together, he began to realise that she was an innocent and kind-hearted girl. During their reception party which was held on Guddan's insistence, he found out that it was Guddan's step-mother who got them married through deceit. After realising that he had been misunderstanding Guddan all these times, Akshat began to trust Guddan and appreciated her for taking care of his mother. On the surface, he always seemed to be angry with Guddan but he deeply cared about her while Guddan believed that Akshat kidnapped her step- sister Revati just to marry Guddan but as she started living with him, she realised he was a man of principles who can never do such a thing. In a flashback, it's shown that police officer Vikram Rawat who's also Antara's elder brother forced Guddan to stay with Akshat to collect proof to frame Akshat for Antara's death. The story then focused on how Guddan and Akshat start living together under one roof and build an understanding for each other despite the frequent friction between them. Yet, knowing that Rawat wanted to frame Akshat for Antara's murder Guddan concealed it from Akshat and the rest of the family. But when Rawat arrested Akshat, Guddan, requesting the DILs to support her, risked everything to save Akshat from such false accusations. Though he was thankful to Guddan for saving him, however, he found out that Guddan was actually staying at his house to gather evidence against him. On finding this Akshat is furious at Guddan and breaks her mangalsutra. Guddan, in spite of getting mocked by her DILs, vowed to wear the mangalsutra again only when Akshat himself would make her wear it thereby acknowledging her as his wife. Akshat had a younger brother, Angad, who was mentally unstable and had been kept away from the Jindal household as he was somewhat responsible for Antara's death and could also be a threat to the women of the family. Therefore, he was kept at a secluded place by Akshat in order to protect his brother from the police. It is implied by Daadi (Akshat's mother) that Angad's insanity was somehow related to Antara's death. But Guddan upon finding the truth brought Angad back to Jindal's house because she believed the love of the family is the best medicine, much to the annoyance of Akshat. The entire Jindal family, then, went to celebrate Holi in Goa and a series of incidents caused Guddan and Akshat to get close again. When Vicky, Durga Jindal's brother, and owner of the resort tried to approach Laxmi with indecent intentions, Guddan stood up to protect her DIL which resulted in a change of heart in Laxmi for Guddan. Vicky to avenge the insult tried to molest Guddan and when Akshat beats him up he dares to question the sanctity of Akshan marriage. Infuriated by such audacity, Akshat once again took marital vows with Guddan and went to tie the mangalsutra on Guddan's neck. However, Guddan stopped him saying that she wants him to tie the mangalsutra when he accepts her as his wife from his heart and not due to any social pressure. Akshat was surprised to hear that and began to respect her more because of her strong sense of self-respect. Meanwhile, Durga Bahu, angry about her brother's insult in Akshat's hand, vowed to take revenge from Akshan by using Angad. She changed Angad's medication that would disturb his mental health and also provoked Angad into believing that Guddan is in love with Angad making him jealous of his own brother. One day Akshat who has now begun to respect Guddan and appreciate her childish yet honest nature, decided to tie mangalsutra on Guddan's neck. But Angad stabbed him and made the Jindal family believe that Akshat was dead. Angad revealed to Guddan that Akshat was alive however Guddan had to accept his marriage proposal if she wanted to save Akshat's life. Guddan eventually managed to rescue Akshat with the help of Laxmi Bahu. After coming home, Akshat pretended memory loss to find out the mastermind of the whole plan. However, Durga Bahu became aware of the pretense and cleverly manipulated the evidence making Saraswati the scapegoat. Thus, Akshan was made to believe that the mastermind was Saraswati. An infuriated Dadi asked Saraswati to leave the house but Guddan stopped her saying that she must be given a second chance. Akshat then tied the mangalsutra on her neck and repeated seven vows promising to protect, respect, and love her - thereby finally accepting Guddan as his wife wholeheartedly. A few days later, Guddan's mother-in-law received the news of her and aka Akshat's aunt Shanti bua coming to visit them to see her nephew's bride as she was unable to attend the wedding. Shanti bua was a strict woman who believed that the DILs should be kept under strict rules and regulations and not to make friends with them. Guddan initially tried to pretend like a strict saas but she couldn't let her DILs suffer and therefore revealed her true self which was vehemently disapproved by Shanti Buaji. Buaji then throws a few challenges to Guddan and tells her to prove herself. Durga Bahu supported Buaji while Laxmi Bahu stood beside her friend/MIL Guddan. Through the challenges, Guddan however realised that this face-off was actually putting Durga Bahu's marriage at stake and therefore she let Buaji win. Durga, however, ungratefully made Guddan take a medicine that caused her to vomit a number of times. Saraswati and Durga utilised this chance to brainwash Laxmi Bahu and Akshat's mother into believing that Guddan was pregnant. The news brought such joy that they began to prepare for a grand celebration, thereby making Durga and Saru Bahus' plan a success. When Akshat came to know about the celebration, he angrily disclosed in front of the family that they have not and they will never consummate their marriage. Guddan was then humiliated and insulted by Buaji of being incapable of fulfilling her duties as a wife. However, with the care and support of her truly awesome husband, she regained her confidence to give a fitting reply to Buaji's accusations. In the meantime, a plan made by Akshat's mother and Laxmi Bahu made Akshan go for an unplanned date which brought both of them closer as a couple. The same night, Guddan was accused of trying to burn Durga alive but AJ boldly told the family that he trusted her. The next morning, Durga put forward her condition that either she would stay at Jindal Bhavan or Guddan would. This brought up a heated argument between AJ and his nephews and the latter decide to leave the house. Guddan feeling helpless and sad with such a turn of events decided to leave the house. Guddan leaves the house only to come back again that very day but changing her avatar to a powerful and extremely strict MIL, much to the chagrin of Durga Bahu, Saru Bahu, and Buaji but Akshat stood by her like a rock and supported her in each step. With the help of AJ, she finally proved that a saas and bahu can be friends. Buaji left for her village blessing the couple while Akshan finally found that it was Parv behind the incident of burning durga alive and that Angad and Revati love each other. Parv was taught a lesson by Akshan. However, to avenge himself, Parv made the Jindal family eat meals mixed with sedatives and made them unconscious and tried to marry Revati forcefully. He tied up the whole family and left Dadi with poisonous gas, Lakshmi in a water tank, and Akshat in a room full of snakes. Guddan managed to save all, but while rescuing an unconscious Akshat she got bitten by the snake. After handing over Parv to the police, AJ rushed her to the hospital where doctors told that her condition is very critical. AJ stood on burning coal to perform maha-arati for Guddan's life while realising his love for his wife. After an emotional sequence where it was shown that Akshat's undying love brought his wife back from death's door, Guddan returns to the Jindal house. Now in love with Guddan, Akshat showered her with care and love. However, he was yet to confess his feelings to Guddan while Daadi made arrangements for their renewal of vows. Durga tried to create misunderstanding between Akshat and Guddan but all in vain. Both Akshat and Guddan finally profess their love for each other. During the engagement, as they were about to exchange rings Antara, Akshat's first wife made an entry. Guddan was shocked and believed that since Antara was back in his life so Akshat didn't need her anymore but, Akshat truly loved Guddan and had already moved on from Antara. Akshat finally told Antara that Guddan is nobody else but his wife when Antara tried to remove her palm prints from the wall. Antara was heartbroken on hearing this. But surprisingly she accepted Akshan and asked them to get married in front of her eyes. But her wicked intentions were revealed when she spiked the sweets and made Akshan eat it. She asked both of them to come to the terrace and made an impression that Akshat had spent a night with her. Just after that she revealed to Guddan that she was never in coma and left Akshat because he was not rich at that time and he adopted his brothers's sons after his death. She is now back only for AJ's money and does not love Akshat and the family. Guddan is determined to reveal her truth in front of family. Rawat tried to help her but was killed by his own sister, Antara. Antara's next ploy was to tell the family that she was pregnant with Akshat's child. Heartbroken and therefore trying to punish himself, Akshat announced his wedding with Antara. Akshat and Dadi refused to believe Guddan that Antara is wrong. After realising how cruel Antara was, Durga Bahu started to change and promised to prove herself as a worthy DIL to Guddan. Antara puts on a show for the family about Guddan trying to kill her and her unborn child. She bribed the doctor who told Akshat that, Antara had suffered a miscarriage. Dadi gets angry and slaps Guddan. Akshat, Dadi and Antara leave the house to go live with Guddan's father. But it was all Guddan's plan to keep her family safe. Guddan scared for her family, gives all the property to Antara. But she tells Guddan that she'll leave Akshat if Guddan agrees to marry the groom (an old man) of Antara's choice. Guddan agrees for the safety of her family. Although upset with his wife, Akshat was enraged hearing the news of Guddan's marriage. He decides to stop it but Antara struck him in the head, rendering him unconscious. Meanwhile, Guddan's marriage takes place in front of Antara. After confessing all her crimes and how she made a fool of the Jindals to Guddan, Antara leaves the place happily believing that she had successfully removed Guddan from Akshat's life. But, it is revealed that Guddan married Akshat and not the old man. Akshat realised his mistake towards Guddan and apologised but Guddan was too heartbroken to believe him again. Akshat tried hard to show his love for Guddan. Akshat disguises himself as Mr. Honda to expose Antara. After Antara's evil intentions are revealed to the world she vows to destroy lives of Jindal family. She unites with Parv and plots against Guddan. Antara kills Akshat's brother Angad and turns Revati/Chhutki against her sister, Guddan. On a honeymoon that was pre-planned by the now deceased Angad,spends a romantic night together and finally consummated their marriage. But the same night Akshat shoots Guddan and she falls off a cliff. 

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On the Lower Rhine, the corpse of a woman is found whose red hair, pubic, and armpit hair have been removed. The investigators Nadja Simon and Matthias Köhler and prosecutor Grünberg, with whom Nadja has an affair, encounter five former boarding school students who know the victim from their school days and experimented with human scents back then, inspired by the novel Perfume. In addition, the unresolved case of a missing boy comes into focus. When his body is found, he has the same mutilations as the red- haired victim. A prostitute is also found murdered, disfigured in the same way. Meanwhile, Nadja learns that she is pregnant by Grünberg. He is not ready to leave his wife and wants an abortion. When she refuses, he ends the relationship. 

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The film begins with the fall of a woman from the terrace of an apartment building. Then we are introduced to Inspector Kaalidas (Bharath), a good cop, who is shown convincing a man against killing himself. Kaalidas then proceeds to investigate the woman's death, which he presumes to be a suicide based on initial observations. Later, he visits residential apartments and tells them that they can reach out to cops for their issues. However, Kaalidas' extreme work pressure creates a strain on his relationship with his wife Vidyaa (Ann Sheetal). One day, a mysterious man (Aadhav Kannadasan) arrives at Kaalidas's house looking for a place to rent. After initially turning him down, Vidyaa leases out the first floor of their house to the man, who is revealed to be a disc jockey. Meanwhile, another woman dies after falling from her apartment terrace. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Velraj) ropes in the experienced Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) (Suresh Menon) to assist in the investigation. Kaalidas suspects that the deceased women could be victims of the Blue Whale Challenge. However, the ACP suspects the events to be connected murders. Further investigations reveal that both victims had quite a few similarities. Both had fairly discontented married lives, and neither woman had any children. The respective apartment cameras were either not working or had been turned off during the incident. When the police restore the broken smartphone belonging to the second victim, they find a series of intimate exchanges between her and a guy called Aarav (Yukendran). Subsequent investigation of the death of the first victim also leads the police to conclude the existence of an extra-marital affair. However, the alibis of the captured men prove they were not at the scene of the crimes. Meanwhile, Vidyaa starts developing a close bond with her tenant, who resembles "Pappu", her college love. The plot further thickens as a third woman falls to her death from her apartment terrace. The call history of the victim's mobile phone leads them to a guy, who reveals that the third victim made money by illegally renting her place out on nights for prostitution. A chain of leads directs the police towards a woman called Shanti, who is a procurer and is currently hospitalized. Upon learning the police are on her trail, Shanti successfully escapes from the hospital but is stabbed to death soon after. Meanwhile, the police find a common contact (David Susai, who runs a parlor) in the call histories of the first and third victims. Kaalidas learns from the parlor CCTV footage that the victims, along with his wife Vidyaa, were regular visitors to the parlor. Fearing that Vidyaa maybe the murderer's next victim, Kaalidas frantically rushes home to warn her after she fails to respond to his calls. Meanwhile, Vidyaa, who is celebrating her birthday at home with her tenant, is suddenly attacked by him. Just in the nick of time, the ACP arrives at Kaalidas' residence and soon, Kaalidas too arrives on the scene. It is then revealed by the ACP that Vidyaa is the actual murderer and that the tenant was nothing more than a figment of her imagination. Tracing the call history of the fourth victim led the ACP to Vidyaa's psychologist friend who reveals that Kaalidas and Vidyaa's daughter had died two days after birth, as a result of which Vidyaa had become Schizophrenic. The lack of attention and care from Kaalidas pushes her into creating an imaginary version of the Kaalidas she loved during her college days - Pappu. The face of the imaginary character Pappu is also revealed to be stemmed from the ACP's son who visits the same parlour Vidyaa goes to. Upon finding the man she met at the parlour has an element of resemblance to her old Kaalidas, she takes on the character to be her tenant in her imagination. Hence, fearing that the women she meets in the parlor may divide her from her old Kaalidas, she empowers that imaginary Kaalidas to stop anything and anyone that attempts to separate her from her real Kaalidas - hence the murders of the women. The blood sample on the fourth victim's leg is found to match with Vidyaa's blood sample, which the ACP had collected from Vidyaa's psychologist, proving Vidyaa as the murderer. The final scene where Vidyaa's imaginary character attempts to murder Vidyaa herself derives from the concept that Vidyaa wanted to be with her own Kaalidas, and not introduce another man in her life. Hence, when she finds herself to be cheating on her Kaalidas, it prompts her imaginary tenant to murder her. Upon closer inspection, it can also be found that Vidyaa who was initially pursuing the tenant, freezes when he makes a move on her in her final birthday scene. This is done to highlight that Vidyaa freezes since she doesn't want to cheat on her husband with another man, the realisation that she is cheating then prompts the imaginary character attempt to murder her. Later, it is shown that Kaalidas has quit his job as a police officer to once again become the "Pappu" that Vidyaa loves. The film ends with Kaalidas singing Vidyaa's favorite Bharathiyar song and the imaginary Kaalidas vanishing into thin air. 

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The series follows a group of young girls who aspire to become hula dancers. 

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Hari (Vimal) and Giri (Singampuli) are colleagues who work together in a pharmacy. In the night, they become robbers but steal only petty things. However, they land in trouble by going beyond their limits. Soon, both partners in crime gets chased by a cop named SI Geetha (Poorna), a gangster named Annachi (Anandaraj), and a horny NRI (Miya Rai) who wants Hari. Above all, the family of Hari's lover Surekha (Ashna Zaveri) also wants to wallop him. The rest of the film is all about how both Hari and Giri come out of all the trouble. 

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A gay successful piano bar owner Ebenezer "Ben" Scrooge (David Pevsner) despises Christmas and other people; he also mistreats and underpays his employees. One night, Scrooge encounters the ghost of Jacob Marley (Tim Kazurinsky)—who died ten years before the film—in chains, warning him that Scrooge would have the same fate in afterlife as Marley's and that the three Spirits will visit him. After he goes to sleep, Scrooge encounters the Ghost of Christmas Past (Ronnie Kroell), who transports him to the 1970s. There, they see Ben's father (Michael Joseph Mitchell) kicking Young Ben (Drew Anderson) out of the house after seeing Ben make love to one of his male classmates. Four months later, Young Ben befriends a young disco club employee Jacob Marley (Nicholas Bailey) and is hired by the club owner Fezziwig, who treats him like a son. Young Ben develops a relationship with Bill (Christopher Allen), whom he met at Fezziwig's club. On Ben and Bill's first Christmas season together, Ben's close sister Franny (Allison Torem) dies after giving birth to her daughter Freda. Then Ben's father sends him a letter instructing him not to visit or honor the family, distressing Ben. For comfort, Ben and Bill declare their love for each other. Over the years, Ben, Jacob and Fezziwig become co-owners of the club and expand their business; however, Ben and Bill's relationship becomes strained when Ben increasingly focuses more on his career and money and neglects Bill. In the mid-1980s, Ben and Jacob trick Fezziwig into transferring his business to them and then kick Fezziwig out. Outraged about Fezziwig's fate and having enough, Bill ends the relationship with Ben, upsetting Ben. Eventually, Bill dies of AIDS in 1987, yet Ben refuses to visit him when Bill was dying or to mourn him. After Ben finishes revisiting the past, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Megan Cavanaugh) transports him to his niece Freda's (Rusty Schwimmer) house, where she and her partner Mary (Amy Matheny) gather a Christmas Eve party, and then various places where other people celebrate the holidays, including a scene where Fezziwig solitarily celebrates Christmas in his apartment. Then they transport to the house of one of Scrooge's overworked and underpaid employees Bob Cratchit (David Moretti), whose health care proposal for employees Scrooge refused, where Bob lives with his male partner and their adopted children, including an ill child Tiny Tim (Liam Jones). After they transport back to Scrooge's home, feeling sympathy, Scrooge asks about Tiny Tim's fate. She replies, "We all will die. Nothing can be done without assistance." Then the Ghost of Christmas Future (JoJo Baby) covered in a black robe transports him to a bleak future Christmas, where everyone is glad about his death, a gay center whose donation offer Scrooge refused earlier is financially struggling and close to shutting down, and his possessions are stolen and then sold to pawn shops. Then the spirit transports Scrooge to the Cratchit home, where the family mourn Tiny Tim's death, and then to the scene of Scrooge's death and his tombstone inscribed: "E. Scrooge". Then Scrooge sobs and promises that he will change while he is transported back to his home on the present Christmas Day. Happy to return, Scrooge remembers putting away Bill's letter, written on the day of their breakup, and then reads it, saying that when Ben finds grace, Bill forgives him and declares his love for him. On the afternoon, Scrooge anonymously sends a large turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas dinner, donates money to the gay center, spends a Christmas dinner with Freda and Mary, gives his employees bonuses, promotes Bob as a business partner, gives Bob a pay raise, and accepts Bob's health care proposal. Some time later, Scrooge honors his deceased lover Bill, takes care of Fezziwig with a motorized wheelchair, is a dedicated uncle to Freda and Mary's baby, becomes Tiny Tim's father figure, and starts another relationship, illustrating his kept promise to the Spirits. After the end credits roll, the chains loosen from Marley's ghost resulting from visiting and haunting Scrooge, i.e. helping others to help oneself, a loophole that he learned at the beginning of the film. 

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Katya has a mystical gift, she sees ghosts. When her twin sister disappears, the girl alone rushes in search. The police insist that the sister does not exist at all, that she is the fruit of Katya's sick imagination. However, during the search for her sister, Katya understands that a serial maniac is operating in town, and her sister is one of his victims. There is still hope to save her, but in a gloomy, mystery-filled city you cannot trust anyone, even yourself. 

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Shortly after arriving at The Queen Victoria pub, Ruby Allen (Louisa Lytton) and her friend Stacey Fowler (Lacey Turner) notice Stacey's husband Martin Fowler (James Bye) drinking with his friends Ross Swinden (Ossian Luke) and Matt Clarkson (Mitchell Hunt), who Ruby has accused of raping her. Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) reads the front page of the local newspaper, whose headline story states that two local men have been charged with rape. Mel Owen (Tamzin Outhwaite) tells Sharon Mitchell (Letitia Dean) that the police took CCTV footage from their club as part of the investigation. Stacey tells Ross and Matt to leave, and asks Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) not to serve them. Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) also refuses to serve them, having realised that they are the men from the newspaper, and receives offers of help to throw them out. Ross publicly defends himself, telling the locals that a woman accepted his drinks, kissed him, went back to his place, removed her clothes, and in the morning was hungover and went to the police. Martin defends his friends, calling it a misunderstanding, which angers his daughter, Bex Fowler (Jasmine Armfield). After Matt and Ross leave, a debate starts between the locals, with several points of view being put across about sexual assault and consent, which causes arguments between Denise Fox (Diane Parish) and Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami), and Martin and Stacey. Ruby wants to leave, but Stacey urges her to stay. Linda notices Ruby is upset and realises that she is the victim. She comforts Ruby and reassures her that she has done the right thing. Glenn Neyland (Todd Von Joel) enters and Martin tries to get him to leave, as Ruby is also there. A drunken Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) accuses Glenn of being a rapist too, but he says that he has done nothing wrong and the only person who did is the liar his friends had sex with. Ruby confronts Glenn for calling her a liar, outing herself as the victim. Everyone stares at Ruby, as she returns to her seat and tells Stacey that now everyone knows, no one will believe her. 

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Set in England in 1934, a widow (Alice Eve) hosts a gathering for her high-society friends in an attempt to help solve her husband's murder. 

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In her boldest performance yet, Zeng Meihuizi stars as a woman who lives on the sea with her three husbands. With an overactive libido, she heartily devotes herself to her work as a prostitute. As in the trilogy’s two previous films, Chan uses the world’s oldest profession to satirise the state of contemporary Hong Kong. 

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Salazar takes Tara to Jacob Hale's office, where he takes Hale hostage as well. When he gives his list of demands, one of them is for Jax to come to Hale's office. Tara sees Salazar pull out a knife, and he tells her he plans to kill her while Jax watches and then kill Jax. As Jax enters the office, Salazar is about to kill Tara, but Jacob Hale stabs him instead. Jax wrestles the gun from Salazar, gives it to Tara, and tells her to kill anyone who is not a cop. When the whole ordeal is over with Jax and Tara go to the doctor for an ultrasound to make sure the baby was not harmed. The baby is healthy and Jax and Tara hear the heartbeat and see the baby on the ultrasound. Jax and Tara then go to Gemma's house where Gemma hugs her. Tara sees Abel and happily holds him and welcomes him back home. In the season finale, Tara has become more involved with the club. She drives Jimmy O back to the garage in the trunk after SAMCRO buys him from the Russians. Jax makes sure that she wears a bulletproof vest to ensure her safety in case something goes wrong. When Stahl tells the club about the deal Jax made with her, which was actually a trap by the club to kill Stahl and Jimmy, she runs and hugs him distraught and fearing that the club will kill him in prison. Meanwhile, Jax has a deal with Stahl, However, she exposes Jax's deal to the club thinking they would kill him. Her motivation for doing so seems to have been malicious. However, Jax was aware that she could not be trusted and had already informed the other members of the club. This led ultimately to Opie, with the help of Unser, targeting Agent Stahl in retribution for her role in the death of his wife, Donna. During this confrontation Stahl breaks down crying and begs Opie for her life, to which Opie responds, "This is what she felt." He then shoots Stahl in the back of the head with a MAC-10, instantly killing her. After this, Chibs Telford rigs the scene to look as if the real IRA murdered Stahl and Jimmy O'Phelan. Tara reads letters from John Teller to his mistress Maureen Ashby implying that Gemma and Clay would be responsible for his death should it happen. The close up shot of Tara's face transitions to Jax's face. 

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Ziyan Ali (Hussain Sobah) and Aishath Haifa (Jamsheedha Ahmed) are prominent stage performers and childhood friends turned lovers. Haifa was offered a course of voice training from Australia for six months and she hesitantly accepts. Bored at home, Ziyan decides to distract himself by visiting an island on his friend Ahmed's (Ahmed Saeed) request. There he meets a deaf-mute girl Fazeela (Mariyam Nisha) and starts following her. They initiate a romantic relationship despised by her father. However, Ziyan marries Fazeela and breaks the news to his father but he decide to hid the truth from Haifa and family. Haifa returns from Australia and publicly announces her engagement. Ziyan's father, Zubair begged him to get back to Haifa and abandon Fazeela. He involuntarily marries Haifa. Meanwhile, Haifa migrates to another island with her father. Haifa and Ziyan were inclined to take some days off work and enjoy a vacation at an island, the same island Fazeela moved to. She was assigned to greet them on arrival and was devastated to see Ziyan with another girl. The situation worsen when she was allotted as the cook in their house. The next day, Haifa and Ziyan leaves to Male' and Fazeela discovers about her pregnancy. Five years later, Haifa return to the island after a stage show at a nearby island and she insisted to stay at Fazeela's house. There she meets Fazeela's daughter and discovers the guitar she had gifted to Ziyan but believed it to be of someone else's. When Haifa asked about the father of Fazeela's daughter, she brought torn pieces of a portrait which unveils to be the face of Ziyan. On returning Male' Haifa admits of her understanding about Ziyan's affair. Zubair owns up the blame and ask forgiveness from Haifa. Ziyan and Haifa meets his daughter at the hospital and visited Fazeela at her deathbed. 

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Wandering through the forest, Ivan finds on the edge of the swamp dilapidated hut. There lives an old woman with a beautiful granddaughter Olesya. Many years ago, the peasants, considering the woman a witch, burned their house, and it burned the daughter of an old woman. The girl was very interested in Ivan Timofeyevich and soon, conquered by the power of feelings, openness and purity of her soul, he falls in love with Olesya. However, Olesya foresees a quick separation. 

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An eighteen year old former Kansas high school cheerleader moves to L.A. upon graduating, becomes a porn actress, and is drugged with cocaine before committing suicide at age twenty. Based on the dramatization of real-life accounts of the late Shauna Grant. 

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Srikanta goes to his friend Mahendra Rao's celebration where he meets Piyaribai. Although he can not recognizes her but Piyari knows him well as Srikanta was her childhood love. Piyari reveals the past fact how she become so from Rajlakshmi. She was forced by the wicked society, poverty and misfortune she had to take this unholy profession. 

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A servant of gongsheng Han Maochun () is awoken from his slumber by a bright light that turns into a dog before morphing into a woman. Deducing that she must be a fox spirit, the servant develops a romantic relationship with her; however, his love is put to the test when Han demands for her capture. Later at midnight, the servant attempts to restrain the fox by grabbing onto her blouse, which she rips off before fleeing. Thereafter, he reencounters her along the roadside where she raises the possibility of reconciliation between them and invites him into a large mansion for a drink. Some time later, the servant makes his move – only to realise he had been in the middle of a sorghum field. 

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A group of friends go on a picnic to an island. Within the group, Zoona (Niuma Mohamed) is instantly attracted to Jina (Reeko Moosa Manik). The first night, she woke up at midnight and enjoys walking on the beach herself. A ghost disguised as Jina accompanies the unsuspecting Zoona. When she returns home, Jina was already sleeping at the hut. The following night, they spend time together at beach, take photos together and share an intimate moment. Next morning, she was revealed by a friend that she was alone on the beach. Suspecting strange events, that night she took a friend with her and was startled when her friend doesn't see Jina. Zoona returns to Malé and discovers herself pregnant with the ghost's child. She gives birth to a girl, Jenny, after an unusually easy labor. Jina demands to resettle Zoona and Jenny in his world with his family which Zoona condemned. However, she agreed to hand over Jenny once she is strong and fit. Fearing of losing her child, Zoona ties an amulet over her neck so Jina cannot touch Jenny which leads Jina to warn Zoona that he will return on Jenny's fifth birthday. After five years, Zoona who is now married to Ihusan (Ali Shameel) is distressed with Jina's warning. They go on family trip and Zoona is distraught on learning that they lands to the same island where she met Jina for the first time. While swimming, Jenny accidentally loses the amulet. That night, Jenny goes missing and Zoona finds her with Jina. The whole group searches for Jenny in the sea and forest while Jenny leaves with her father to return after few years. Five years later, Zoona and Ihusan is now blessed with a boy, Saajid. The family decided to visit an island to spend holiday but due to the bad weather and rough sea, they are yet again forced to land on the same island which now is inhabited. On the island, they are being followed by Jenny while Jina fails to debauch Zoona. One night, during a social gathering Zoona lures a trap to burn Jina. Afterwards, Zoona convinced Ihusan to welcome Jenny into their family since she is an orphan. To avoid suspicion Jenny is strained from calling Zoona mother and she works as a maid in the house. To Zoona's disbelief, Jina shows up alive and reveals that ghosts cannot be incinerated. Several disputes arises between Zoona and Jina regarding her unfair treatment towards. Saajid falls very sick and Zoona blames it on Jina. However, he shows up with medication which Zoona refused to take. One night, when Saajid was admitted at hospital, Jina disguised as Ihusan have sex with her. Zoona, aware of his betrayal too late, brings a spell-maker who ultimatum has one of the two options; Either Jenny and Jina separates or Zoona dies. Jina exposes Ihusan's true identity that he has a wife and two kids elsewhere to Zoona which she refused to believe. One last time, Jina offered Zoona to migrate to his world which she declines. Saajid dies and Ihusan attempted to make a spell on Jenny believing she is the root of all problems. Jina threatens Zoona that he will take Jenny with him and he once more will impregnate her, making her give birth to a ghost rather than a human after suffering a strenuous labor. Jina murders the spell-maker and come to take Jenny with him. On their departure, Zoona creates a scene blaming Saajid's death on Jina. Ihusan joins them and was surprised to see Jina and Jenny. Jina reveals the true identity of Jenny, their secret affair and informs about Zoona's next child. As soon as they leave she has a swift pregnancy and delivers an undefined-shaped ghost. Ihusan and Zoona discuss about the fate of their relationship. He agrees to take her in his life only if she gets rid of her new-born child. A breakout happens and is revealed that Ihusan is being killed by her child. It later changes its form to its true shape freaking out Zoona. 

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South Park fourth grader Butters Stotch looks forward to the town's bike parade, where he hopes to win first prize. He purchases accessories to decorate his bicycle, but his father, Stephen, who recently began working at the Amazon fulfillment center as a floor manager, worries that his family’s frequent purchases on that website are driving it deeper into debt. In addition, many local businesses have closed since the center opened, due to the public's preference for buying things online. Stephen's co-worker, Josh Carter, is accidentally grabbed by a sorting robot and compressed into a small package, which Amazon blames on "human error." This outrages the facility's boxers, who go on strike, shutting down the fulfillment center, and delaying the fulfillment of the public's orders. Members of the public form a counter- protest urging the boxers to return to work so that they can receive their purchases. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, appears at South Park City Hall, where he is depicted similarly to the lead Talosian from the original 1965 Star Trek pilot "The Cage". He complains about the strike to Mayor McDaniels, who had assured him that the town was the perfect location for the center. Angered that Amazon orders throughout Colorado are not being fulfilled, he threatens to close her Amazon Prime account if she does not help him get the strikers back to work. When the company closes the strikers' Prime accounts, this creates a conflict for Stephen, who is torn between providing for his family and supporting his coworkers. Bezos and McDaniels observe this and other developments in the situation through cameras in citizens' Amazon Echo smart speakers. Butters' friends, Kenny McCormick, Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski, are initially dismissive of his interest in the bike parade. They reevaluate their view of it, however, upon encountering Larry Zewiski, the haughty winner of a previous parade, and see how popular his victory made him. Desiring to win the prize as a group, they decide to enter four bikes into the parade under a single theme. When the strike impedes their ability to buy accessories for their bikes, however, they go to the local mall, but find it dilapidated and populated solely by zombie-like employees who cannot provide the diverse inventory that online merchants offer. Stan contacts Bezos, and says that the mall zombies will work as boxers at the fulfillment center if Bezos ships their bike parade-related purchases to them first. Bezos agrees to this, and when the strikers learn of this, Josh, still permanently stuck in a small box, decides to lead them to revolution. 

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Kuroto Nakano is a young salaryman with a very unhappy and stressful life, almost entirely occupied by his job at the company he works for. One night, after yet another day spent overworking, the moment he opens the door of his home he finds a seemingly young girl with fox ears and a tail cooking dinner for him – her name is Senko, an 800-year-old fox demigod. Senko has been sent to Earth from the spirit world to relieve Kuroto from his unhappy life and help him find happiness again. 

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As is the custom in the Swiss Alps around midsummer, Antoine Pont and his uncle by marriage, Séraphin, have taken their cows up into the mountains in search of fresh pasture. It quickly becomes apparent that Antoine is bored and pining for Thérèse, his wife of two months. One night, a landslide crashes down on the summer village, apparently killing Antoine and Séraphin along with many other herdsmen. When news of the disaster reaches the village from which Antoine and his uncle hail, its inhabitants are plunged into mourning. Thérèse learns of Antoine’s fate just as she discovers that she is pregnant. The thought that her child will be born an orphan fills her with despair. Her mother, Philomena, tries in vain to comfort her, while mourning the loss of her brother Séraphin. Seven weeks and a day after the landslide, Antoine emerges from the rock that, by a stroke of luck, buried him without killing him. When he tries to return to his village, however, he is mistaken for a ghost. He manages to persuade Thérèse that he is flesh and blood, but when he learns that Séraphin perished in the disaster, he refuses to believe it. Convinced that his uncle is still alive and merely trapped beneath the boulders, as he was, Antoine decides to return to the site of the landslide to rescue Séraphin. When Thérèse discovers that her husband has left the village, she realises what he intends to do and goes after him, hoping to convince him to return to the world of the living. The novel ends with their confrontation in the unrecognisable landscape of the collapsed mountain, during which she wins him round. 

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Having believed a police officer's life to be luxurious, with much income in the form of bribes, Karnan, an orphan, grows up to become a corrupt Sub-Inspector who forms an immediate friendship with the local don ECR Kaalirajan by releasing his four brothers Kumar, Prakash, Vinay, and Sabari from lock-up, who were all arrested for smuggling. Karnan's attitude does not go well with his subordinate Abdul Kader, a sincere police constable. In vain as it is, he tries to oppose Karnan's deeds. Meanwhile, Karnan meets and falls in love with Sindhu, who gets kidnapped by Kaalirajan's men on her birthday but is rescued in time by Karnan. Kaalirajan then scolds his henchmen for kidnapping the wrong person and apologizes to both of them. As her birthday gift, Sindhu requests Karnan to save the girl who was supposed to be kidnapped and killed by Kaalirajan. A reluctant Karnan fights Kaalirajan's goons and saves the girl, Santhiya. Karnan somehow reconciles with Kaalirajan later and learns that Santhiya has certain evidence against Kaalirajan's brothers. Karnan meets her and learns that her sister Bhavani was kidnapped, raped, and brutally assaulted to death by Kaalirajan's four brothers for two weeks, and this act was recorded by them. The footage was stored on a camera, which is with Santhiya now. Karnan takes the camera and arranges to send both Santhiya and her mother to the States. Before their departure, Santhiya's conversation with him leaves him shattered. Realizing that he was indeed responsible for the rape since he allowed the brothers to escape, Karnan is devastated and soon realizes that he has changed after he fights off Kaalirajan's goons sent to retrieve the camera at the police station, with Kader notifying the change in him. He soon manages to track the brothers and beat them all up before arresting them. After Bhavani's corpse is found and the autopsy is performed, Karnan produces the camera as the evidence, which turns out to be an empty one. Though no further evidence exists, Karnan asks a gap of one day to provide necessary evidence so that Kaalirajan's brothers do not escape as exonerated. Later, Kaalirajan's men attack a drunk Karnan when he is alone. After a brutal fight, they bury him alive, but he manages to escape. Karnan reaches the court the next day, and to everyone's shock, he adds that he is one among not the four, but "five" men who sexually assaulted Bhavani. He then convinces the judge to sentence all five of them to capital punishment in order to ensure that the other four do not escape punishment. This statement shakes the entire course of the case, and Karnan is publicly resented. He is allowed by the commissioner to watch as all four of the brothers are hanged, after which he too is hanged. Merely hours later, Santhiya and her mother arrive in Chennai, publicly revealing Karnan's innocence and the sacrifice he made was to ensure punishment to all of the accused criminals. The revelation shocks the nation, and the people who misunderstood him eventually mourn his death as his corpse is brought and walked from the gallows. The film ends with Karnan's final words: "All men will now fear an immediate death sentence, if they ever molest a girl." 

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Joan and Tom have been married for many years; they keep their house in order and go about their routine lives. There is an ease to their relationship, and a deep love which manifests itself through tenderness and humor in equal measure. Tom owns a pet fish that Joan does not care for. They exercise by going on a long walk through town, turning back when they reach a newly planted sapling. One morning while showering, Joan finds a mass on her breast. She and Tom head to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Joan's doctor arranges for surgery to excise the mass and surrounding lymph nodes. On the day of Joan's surgery, Tom visits the grave of their daughter, Debbie, alone. He confesses to Debbie that he is scared of being left alone without his wife. Joan's surgery goes well, and the doctors are able to remove all physical signs of cancer. They refer Joan to an oncologist to start chemotherapy. This leads to a disagreement between Joan and Tom about the nature of being "cancer-free." Tom sees that his fish has died and cries as he flushes it down the toilet. While waiting for her chemotherapy appointment, Joan sees Debbie's primary school teacher, Peter, waiting in the lobby. The two chat, and Peter reveals he has terminal cancer. Joan's name is called, and she undergoes her first treatment of chemotherapy. The next day, she vomits heavily. Soon after, Joan's hair begins to fall out in clumps. Tom cuts her hair short and then shaves her head with a razor. Joan forgets which medication she is supposed to take on what day, leading to a vicious argument with Tom about how cancer is destroying their marriage. Donning a wig, Joan meets with Peter at a café where they discuss their mortality. Feeling hot and silly, Joan takes her wig off. Tom meets a man smoking on a bench outside the chemotherapy clinic. A terminal cancer patient himself, the man reassures Tom that the doctors can save Joan. Joan and Tom decide to have a romantic evening at a hotel before Joan's mastectomy. After enjoying a fancy dinner, they have sex. Tom promises to still love Joan even if she does not have breasts. Joan undergoes the mastectomy and more sessions of chemotherapy. Tom waits outside by the bench, but does not see the smoking man again. As Peter visits Joan, Tom meets Steve, Peter's husband, in the hospital cafeteria. They discuss their shared experiences around love and loss. Some time later, Joan has undergone surgery to reconstruct her breasts using abdominal muscle tissue. She and Tom attend Peter's funeral, where Steve delivers a eulogy. After successfully completing her cancer treatment, Joan and Tom go to the supermarket in preparation for Christmas. They go on their exercise walk once more and find that the sapling has grown. 

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A "successful but stingy" interior designer Ebenezer "Ben" Scrooge underpays his assistant Bob Cratchit, depriving him from health care benefits for himself and his HIV-positive partner Tim. One day, he turns down a charity worker's offer to fund Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Later at night, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his business partner and former lover Jacob "Jake" Marley (née Markowitz), who warns Scrooge about his greed and that the three spirits will visit him. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe (as the Ghost of Christmas Past) takes Scrooge back to his 1950s childhood, where he had artistic aspirations as a child, praised by his mother. Ben's alcoholic father belittled him for it, and some of his classmates bullied him, contributing to Scrooge's internalized homophobia. Later, 21-year-old Ben worked for Fezziwig Fabrics (owned by Old Fezziwig), where Ben met another worker Jacob Markowitz. Both then became business partners and lovers. They eventually bought out Fezziwig's business. Their relationship, however, became strained. Scrooge wanted to remain closeted, and Jake shifted toward drugs and sex, leading Jake to suffer and then die from AIDS complications. Afterwards, the Ghost of Christmas Present (in form of a drag queen) shows Scrooge the present-day scenes of Bob Cratchit and Tim and their friends celebrating Christmas, and then the Ghost of Christmas Future reveals Tim's and Scrooge's own death, prompting Scrooge to change his ways for the better. 

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Julie, a film student, intends to make a movie about a boy, his mother, and their life in the city of Sunderland. She lives in a flat with another student and his girlfriend. She meets Anthony, a well-to-do-man who works at the Foreign Office, who moves in with her after her roommate moves out. He leaves a postcard with a picture of the girl in "The Souvenir." He later takes her to the gallery where the painting is hung. Julie says the girl looks sad, while Anthony says she looks determined. Anthony has to travel to Paris but returns with some lingerie, which he asks Julie to put on. While they are in bed, she notices some needle marks on his arm but doesn't know what they are, and he continues to ask Julie for money regularly. Julie starts to pay for their restaurant bills and is forced to borrow money from her parents. Julie and Anthony have dinner with two of Anthony's friends, who reveal to Julie during a moment alone that Anthony is a habitual heroin user. Julie is taken aback but does not mention anything to Anthony. Anthony explains over a meal at Harrods that he has had relationships with three other girls, including trips to Venice with at least one of them, who appears to have committed suicide while on the trip. He invites Julie to go to Venice with him. One evening, she returns to find her apartment has been broken into, and her valuable jewelry is missing. Later, on their trip to Venice, Anthony admits to doing it but didn't tell her to keep her from feeling bad. Julie becomes upset, but Anthony manages to convince her he had a good reason for doing so even though he doesn't elaborate on it, insinuating it is related to work and not to his heroin habit. Julie starts noticing when Anthony is on heroin, and she attends a self-help group. She starts to confront him sometimes but doubts herself, and he manipulates and gaslights her. She begins to take on the responsibility of his addiction. One evening, Julie returns home to find a strange man in her apartment that Anthony must have let in. She also catches an illness from what she's being exposed to through Anthony. Finally, after finding out he was arrested, Julie asks Anthony to move out. Julie begins to put herself back together after the breakup, to the happiness of her friends and professors. Barbara, Anthony's mother, continues to call Julie to try to find him. They meet again, and Anthony appears clean long enough for Julie to invite him back in with her, and he soon goes through withdrawal in front of her. Soon though, he starts using again. Anthony goes missing and is later found dead, having overdosed in a public toilet. 

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After an unwanted marriage, a grandfather takes in Lorraine, his granddaughter from overseas. The ship is wrecked en route and Lorraine is stranded on an island to be raised by animals. The grandfather hires a psychic to find Lorraine and they go on an expedition to get her and her friend/pet, Bimi. Trying to force her into formal settings, Bimi is caged as Lorraine acts out. The animal breaks free and steals Lorraine. A man rescues her, but her pet/friend is shot and she mourns. Lorraine falls in love with the shooter and leaves with him. 

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A young woman contemplates ending her six-week relationship with her boyfriend, Jake, while taking a trip to meet Jake's parents on their farm. During the drive, Jake attempts to recite a poem he read when he was younger, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, and pressures the woman into performing one of her works in the car to pass time. After she recites a morbid poem about coming home, they arrive at the farmhouse. Jake takes the young woman to the barn, where he recounts a story about a maggot-infested pig. Throughout the drive, as well as later scenes in the film, the main narrative is intercut with footage of a janitor working at a high school, including scenes where he sees a musical production rehearsal, and a dance in the school's hallway. Inside the home, the young woman notices scratches on the basement door. At dinner with Jake's parents, the woman, who is described as having different occupations, shares one of her verses and tells the story of how she and Jake met at a trivia night, told with narrative inconsistencies. Later, she notices a picture of Jake as a child, but becomes confused after recognizing that child as herself. The young woman receives another call, and a mysterious male voice explains that there is "one question to answer." Jake's parents begin to transition back and forth from their younger selves to elderly dementia patients. When the young woman takes laundry down to the basement, she discovers several identical janitor uniforms in the laundry, and receives another call from the mysterious voice. On the drive home, Jake mentions several events of the night that the young woman does not remember, including her drinking too much wine; word association soon leads to an extended discussion of John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence. Finding themselves in the middle of a snowstorm, the pair stop at Tulsey Town, an ice cream parlor. They meet employees who are also students at the school the janitor works in. While the young woman buys the dessert, a bruised employee attempts to warn her of something she can't describe. Jake stops at the high school to throw the food cups away. After a heated argument in the parking lot over the lyrics of "Baby, It's Cold Outside", Jake notices the janitor watching them from inside the school and decides to confront him, leaving the young woman alone in the car. After a long wait, she decides to look for Jake inside the school. She meets the janitor and asks him where Jake is before realizing she doesn't remember what Jake looks like. While talking to the janitor, she reveals that nothing happened between her and Jake on the night they met, instead claiming she was made uncomfortable by Jake staring at her. After the young woman discovers Jake at the end of a hall, they look on as people dressed like themselves engage in a dream ballet, which ends when the janitor's dancer kills Jake's dancer with a knife. Having finished his shift, the janitor suffers a mental breakdown and begins to hallucinate visions of Jake's parents as well as an animated Tulsey Town jingle. He undresses and walks back inside the school, being led by another hallucination of a maggot- infested pig who tells him that he and his ideas are one and the same, and that he should get dressed. On an auditorium stage, an old Jake receives a Nobel Prize and sings a song to a full audience of various characters, who give him a standing ovation. In the final shot, a vehicle is covered in snow in the school parking lot. Towards the end of the credits, “clunking” and “whirring” sounds are heard, possibly from an offscreen source. 

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Wild Town is the story of "Bugs" McKenna, a hard luck tough guy who refuses to let people belittle him or treat him unfairly even if it means he suffers for it. Bugs is rousted from town to town in West Texas by the local law until he makes his way to a small town built around oil wells called Ragtown. The wealthiest man in Ragtown is Mike Hanlon, a wildcatter who discovered the oil and built a town around it including the only hotel where Hanlon lives. However, the man who really runs the town is the sheriff, Lou Ford. Bugs provokes a confrontation with one of Ford's deputies and ends up in jail. Expecting a beating Bugs is treated decently and even offered a job working security in Hanlon's hotel. Hanlon is afraid that his young wife is trying to kill him and that Ford may be working for her. Bugs is unsure if he has been hired by Ford to protect or kill Hanlon. His natural inclination is to be distrustful, so he suspects the worst of Ford. Bugs becomes involved in the murder of the hotel's auditor made to look like a suicide, the embezzlement of $5,000 from the hotel, as well as various illicit sexual encounters. At the same time Bugs begins to appreciate how well-suited he is to his job and how enjoyable it is to actually have a stable job. Bugs is even beginning to develop a love life with Ford's school teacher ex-fiance. The question driving the plot is whether Hanlon's wife Joyce is really trying to have him killed and, if so, is Sheriff Ford trying to help her or catch her? The climax is the scene where Bugs finally takes a stand to protect Mr. Hanlon regardless of whether Ford wants him to or not. It is this decision that Ford was waiting for—to know if he could really trust Bugs. Once Bugs and Ford are revealed as working on the same side, the rest of the threads of the plot unwind, thanks to Ford's work and perceptive insights into people. He realizes that Joyce is actually a gold digger who came to Ragtown hoping to get money from Hanlon, but as she started to con him she actually fell in love with him. However, the real villain, who killed the hotel auditor and embezzled the money from the hotel, is revealed to be another con woman named Rosalie Vara, a light skinned black woman who came to Ragtown with Joyce and is now working as a maid at the hotel. She was not about to let Joyce enjoy all of Hanlon's money. She put on a very convincing veneer of a naive, sweet, and innocent young woman. In reality she hatched several different schemes to embezzle from the hotel and then cover it up by murder; first trying to make the murder look like a suicide, and then manipulating Bugs to take the fall. She reveals herself to Bugs just before she knocks him unconscious and stuffs him in a closet. Bugs recovers consciousness in a hospital room with Mr. Hanlon who now realizes that Ford was out to protect him all along. Ford is there to explain the whole plot like a stereotypical hero in a detective novel. His key realization was that Rosalie Vara's description may not have resulted in any outstanding warrants because she was described as a negro. When Ford removed that from the description he was flooded with information about a con woman wanted for several crimes who otherwise matched Rosalie's description except for being black. She was pretending to be black to hide from the law. Unlike most of Thompson's novels the ending is happy and upbeat. 

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Luca Molteni and Rocco Fontana are two creative directors of a company that produces plumbing fixtures, where the first is a single architect by choice, sexy, who lives in a town, while the other is an architect who lives in a country house, married to Claudia and with three children. When they discover the companies they work want to fusion, their German sadic director proposes to them, to win the only position of manager in the new society, a "life exchange": for a week they will have to exchange their homes and adopt the same daily habits of the other. 

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Back when she was in kindergarten, Ao Horie shared a short essay about herself, which she soon regrets, because of her father, Hanasaki Horie, who is an author of erotic novels. Ao aims to go to an elite university to finally get away from her father, but soon she meets Takumi Kijima in their first year in high school. Ao can't think of a way to avoid Takumi and constantly thinks of them being with each other as a couple. Ao believes her father has influenced her way of thinking. 

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In an unspecified county in eastern China, a man raises two green snakes – "Big Green" () and "Green the Second" () – to perform for a living. The snake man prefers Green the Second, who is described as having a "red-spotted forehead" and an ability to "invariably wind and sway" per his commands. Big Green dies a year later; adding to the snake man's plight, Green the Second goes missing shortly after, driving him near-suicidal. However, he quickly finds his snake, now accompanied by another one who the snake man names "Little Green" (). A few years later, Green the Second has become too big for the snake man to handle, thus he decides to release him into the wilderness at the East Mountain in Zichuan; Little Green stays on with the snake man and slowly grows to Green the Second's size too. Another few years thereafter, the snake man returns to the mountain, whereupon he is attacked by Green the Second. Recognising his former master, Green the Second knocks itself against his wooden basket in which Little Green is. The snake man announces that he will allow Little Green to leave with Green the Second; both snakes slither off, "crestfallen", to an unknown fate. In his postscript, Pu comments that duplicitous persons should "feel themselves shamed by these two snakes". 

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A juren surnamed Liu often narrates tales from his past lives to his peer, Wenbi (). Many incarnations ago, Liu was an unnamed government official who died aged 62; in the Underworld, he is initially well-received by Yama, but is subsequently condemned to rebirth as a horse when his multiple transgressions come to light. Unhappy with life in the stable, Liu/Horse starves himself for three days and returns to hell. However, Yama determines Liu's atonement to be insufficient, and has him reborn as a dog. Again suicidal, Liu/Dog attacks his owner, who whips him to death. Back in hell, Yama angrily whips Liu "several hundred times", after which he is sent back to Earth as a snake. In a change of heart, Liu/Snake resolves to lead an ascetic lifestyle; one day he slithers towards an oncoming cart and is sliced in half. Yama finally pardons him; thus he is reborn as Liu the scholar, who is presently able to better empathise with other animals. In his postscript, Pu emphasises the importance of doing good. 

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An unnamed fellow from Hunan is able to remember details from three of his past lives. Once upon a time he was an academic examiner against whom a complaint is lodged from hell by a scholar named Xing Yutang () who "became so angry that he died" after failing the examination. Amidst cries from thousands of scholars – all of whom died similar deaths – for justice to be served, Yama orders that both the academic examiner and his supervisor, the chief examiner, are to be eviscerated. The academic examiner is reborn as a peasant in Shaanxi, whereas Xing becomes an army commander who executes the peasant during a local rebellion. Back in hell, Yama condemns both the peasant and the commander to be reborn as dogs, for their respective impiety and disregard for life; the two dogs meet in a dogfight and kill each other. The Hell King remarks that the two should just "let it go", before decreeing that the former examiner should now be Xing's father-in-law. The examiner is reborn in Changyun County, Shandong as a successful scholar whose wife gives birth to a remarkable daughter; however, he refuses to marry her off and stonewalls her suitors. Sometime later, he encounters a bachelor named Li – the current incarnation of Xing Yutang – and proceeds to arrange for his daughter to wed Li. Though subject to much abuse from his son-in-law, the former examiner continues to treat him kindly. Soon enough he is able to offer Li counsel after the latter is frustrated at his poor performance in the examination hall. The duo are thus reconciled and become "as close as father and son". In his postscript, Pu Songling remarks that the enmity between Xing and the examiner was so great that it took more than three lifetimes to be resolved, while musing, "Are all the beloved sons- in-law in the law former aggrieved spirits from the underworld?" 

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On a tranquil day Birdie and her younger sister Abbie are playing outside when a stranger named Cole Jensen arrives asking for work. Due to his rheumatism Father hasn't been able to take on as much of the farm work as he otherwise handle, so Cole is hired as a farmhand. The man frightens Birdie in ways that she can't specify, particularly after she and Birdie witness dead rats coming back to life in the barn. As the days progress Birdie grows more terrified as she sees more dead come to life, one of the worst being the corpse of a neighbor boy suspected to have run away, but rumored to have drowned in a nearby pond. Cole dispatches the undead boy and menacingly tells Birdie to keep quiet. Eventually all of this proves to be too much for Birdie, especially as Cole continues to stare inappropriately at her and Abbie, and she manages to convince Father to fire the man. Cole leaves and Birdie thinks that things may be over, however a week later she and her sister return home from school to discover that their parents are gone. They find Cole in their shared bedroom. Birdie is outraged and horrified when Cole makes a sexual overture towards Abbie, causing her to attack him. Cole overpowers her and gloatingly tells the sisters that her parents are not in the home because he has poisoned their pregnant mother, making it necessary for Father to drive her to the hospital. He then throws Birdie out of the second floor window. She hears her sister screaming but is unable to get up due to her injuries. Unsure of how much time has passed, Birdie hears her parents returning home to find her bloody and injured on the ground. Before Father can go inside to see if Birdie's safe, Cole appears at the doorway. He claims that she's sleeping and thanks the family for their hospitality, prompting Father to attack and beat Cole. In the ensuing fight Mother attacks Cole and is brutally hit in her abdomen, causing her to bleed profusely between her legs. Just as Cole is threatening to murder all of them, several undead girls appear. Birdie remembers that when they first met him, Cole would occasionally look over his shoulder and mentioned that he had kept wandering. She realizes that he kept wandering because he was trying to evade detection for raping and murdering female children, from both the law and from the victims themselves, as they continually followed him. They tear Cole to pieces and his body turns into dust. The girls then begin to walk away and are joined by Abbie, as Cole had murdered her, and the dead vanish. Months later Mother gives birth, but rather than a healthy living child the boy is one of the undead. It isn't specified if the baby died when Cole struck Mother's stomach or from the claimed poisoning. Birdie is ordered to drown the baby in the pond. The story ends with an elderly Birdie stating that both of her parents died soon after and that she did not drown the baby, but instead has kept him in a box that she occasionally opens. 

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An alms-begging Taoist monk is at a house in Zhongzhou (); after hearing the birdsong of an oriole, he cautions his host about fire hazards, claiming that the bird foretold a fire at the house. The host is incredulous but true enough, a fire breaks out the next day and engulfs numerous other houses in the vicinity. Next, the monk correctly predicts that there would soon be the birth of twins in the area – but also that both would quickly die. Impressed by his ability to communicate with birds, the county magistrate hosts the monk and requests that he decipher what some ducks were saying. The monk again accurately conveys that the magistrate had marital strife to overcome. Subsequently, the monk alludes to the magistrate's corruption, before warning him that he would be "Fired!"; incensed, the official sends the monk on his way, but is indeed found guilty of embezzlement and bribe-taking. 

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Annada, brought up in a conservative middle-class family in a village, who elopes with a snake charmer, Sahuji. Her husband tortures her regularly but Annada remains loyal to him. Young Srikanta treats her like his elder sister Didi. Srikanta often visits her with his daredevil and adventurous friend Indranath. When Annada's husband dies, she leaves the village permanently. 

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China 1945, a romance develops between the young Zhao Ningjing (Zhou Xun) and Lin Shuang-Ran (Jeff Chang), although they are distant cousins and Shuang-Ran is already betrothed. Each will seek to fight against there destiny to try to live each their romantic feelings. 

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Sadie Love, a young widow, marries an Italian prince. When the prince's previous girlfriend, the Comtesse de Mirabole, tries to lure him back, Sadie realizes the prince still has romantic feelings for the comtesse. Sadie wants a divorce, but to avoid public embarrassment, she insists that they go on their honeymoon first. The comtesse wants to go along to prevent the newlyweds from consummating their marriage. Sadie agrees, but only if she can bring her own ex-boyfriend, Jim Wakeley. Jim is followed by his wife, Lilian, who brings her own romantic interest, Mumford Crewe. The six travel first to the home of Sadie's aunt, Mrs. Warrington, who disapproves of the group's romantic complications, then to the cruise ship the prince has booked for the honeymoon. 

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While Sherlock Holmes is away on holiday, Watson journeys to Darkwater Hall in the Cotswolds to protect a woman's husband from harm. 

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Lewis Eliot returns to his home town during the trial of two young women for murder. Eliot and his generation strive to understand the society of the 1960s. 

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Nelson Orion (Martin Landau) is an architect by profession and paranormal investigator by choice. He is engaged to heiress Vivia Mandore (Diane Baker) who mistakenly thought herself free from the domination of her recently deceased mother-in-law. However, the old woman is determined to continue her controlling ways... from beyond the grave. 

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The film is set in the Kona Coffee Belt of Hawaii during the 1920s. Japanese immigrant laborers and the white upperclass live in a rigidly classist society. Jo (played as a child by Cole Takiue), an orphan of mixed-race lineage (hāfu), finds himself ostracized by both groups until Doc (Matt Dillon), a white (haole) doctor from the mainland, is hired as a physician for workers on the plantation owned by Mr. Danielson (Nick Boraine). Doc has Jo run medicine and translate for him on the island. Ten years later, Jo (played by Ryan Potter) falls in love with the plantation owner's daughter, Grace (Olivia Ritchie). They interact a few times at the Danielson's home under the guise of treating her ankle injury. Mr. Danielson meets a new doctor, Dr. Reyes (Jim Caviezel), and invites him to tend to the white upperclass residents of the island, even as his company is going bankrupt. Throughout this time, Doc has been taking several secret trips to see a lawyer in Hilo about formally adopting Jo, even though it was illegal at that time to adopt a mixed-race child. Jo at first is impressed by the new doctor and his car, a Ford Model T, and asks him to take him on as an assistant. However, when they go to treat Mr. Danielson's accountant, who had poisoned himself as a suicide attempt, Jo realizes that the doctor is a charlatan. Dr. Reyes later expresses a romantic interest in Grace, and her father, seeing it as an opportunity to save his plantation and way of life, encourages the proposal. Mr. Danielson sets out on a trip to Hilo to discuss his looming bankruptcy with the bank, intending to inform them that Grace is marrying into a wealthy family. Along the way, he accidentally falls into a ditch and hits his head. Doc and Jo are the first to reach him and, on inspection, Doc fears Mr. Danielson's head injury is severe. He tells Jo to find Dr. Reyes so that they can use his motorcar to transport him. At his home, Mr. Danielson and his mother (Juliet Mills) insist Dr. Reyes treat his injury and that Doc and Jo leave. Moments later, Grace comes crying out of the house announcing that her father is dead. Grace's grandmother and Dr. Reyes watch Grace and Jo embrace, and Grace's grandmother scolds Grace and pulls her away. That night, Doc and Jo are walking back to their house. Along the way, Dr. Reyes purposefully chases them in his car and tries to run them over. Doc manages to push Jo out of the way, but gets hit himself and dies shortly afterward. Dr. Reyes threatens to kill Jo if he doesn't leave town. Later, Jo returns to his mother's house and is found by the Hilo lawyer who informs him that Doc's adoption was a success. Jo runs to the scheduled wedding between Dr. Reyes and Grace and asks for her hand in marriage. Grace's caretaker of several years, Miss Hanabusa (Rumi Oyama), approves the proposal and informs everyone that Mr. Danielson was bankrupt. 

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An infant is reared by nuns in a convent. 

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A 70 year old actress has retired from the stage but not life. 

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The story focuses on the relationship between Nanako Yukishiro, a girl who only communicates through senryū written on tanzaku, and Eiji Busujima, an ex-delinquent who attempts to write his own senryū. The story follows their different takes on everyday life through their senryu. Most chapters take the form of a collection of yonkomas with a few more traditional pages thrown in; these tell the chapter's story when read in order. 

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Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell. In Purgatory, these friends reflect on their pasts while they were living. They especially focus on their years in Catholic School and their coming of age. 

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When a bank robbery results in the death of the sheriff, Judge Beaumont (Roy Gordon) asks horse trainer Gene Autry (Gene Autry) to take the sheriff's place. Gene, who has helped Beaumont deal with his fractious son, Jack (Hugh O'Brian), agrees. Beaumont then reveals that he wants to rewrite his will to leave Jack out, prompting a fight between father and son. When the judge is murdered soon after, Gene is forced to arrest Jack, despite not believing that he is guilty. 

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Hacky friends Heiko and Tommy dream of escaping from communist Berlin that has become disgusting to them. Attempting to cross the border leads them to jail. In contrast to the sluggish and closed Heiko, the experienced and courageous Tommy is already familiar with the harsh orders of the model prisons of the GDR, where neo-Nazi groups are in charge. Caught in this hell, where only the snitches and mad beasts survive, Heiko escapes, enlisting the friendship of a local fascist leader, and Tommy decides to desperately escape. They were destined to see each other only four years later, in Berlin, where Heiko, who became a staunch Nazi, commanded a team of skinheads who had left the underground after the fall of the Wall. 

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John Smith (Ruiz) is a 14-year-old Guatemalan boy raised in Lake St. Louis, Missouri by his adoptive parents, Brian (Lucas) and Joyce Smith (Metz). Though they are loving and supportive, John struggles with feelings of abandonment from his birth parents, and rebels against his parents and teachers. In school, John's class is assigned to give a presentation about their family backgrounds. On his day to present, John admits he did not do the assignment. His basketball coach, who had promised him a starting position, warns John that if he gets a failing grade, he will be benched. John later gives a half-hearted presentation, saying that everyone already knows he is adopted and he does not know much about his true background. Later, John and his friends Josh and Reiger go out onto a frozen lake, ignoring a neighbor's warning. The resident calls the police, and all three boys fall through the ice. Josh and Reiger manage to swim to the surface and are rescued by first responders. Two rescuers dive in, but are unable to find John. As they are about to give up, one of the rescuers, Tommy Shine (Colter), hears a voice telling him to go back. Thinking it is his chief, he tries again, and manages to lift John to the surface. With no pulse or breath, John is taken to the local hospital, where an emergency team works frantically to save his life. After John still fails to register a pulse, the attending physician Dr. Sutterer gives Joyce a chance to say goodbye. A weeping Joyce cradles her son in her arms, pleading with the Holy Spirit to not let John die, at which point a faint pulse registers. Dr. Sutterer recommends transferring John to a better equipped hospital, citing Dr. Garrett (Haysbert) as an expert in cases like John's. After John is transferred and placed in a medically-induced coma, Garrett warns his parents that he has little hope for John's recovery, and that if he were to pull through, he would likely live in a persistent vegetative state. Jason Noble (Grace), the family's new liberal pastor with whom Joyce has frequently clashed, visits the hospital, and Joyce slowly warms to him. Like Joyce, he regards John's progress as divine intervention. John shows some signs of consciousness: he is able to hear Joyce and Noble and respond with squeezes to the hand, and a tear trickles from his eye as a crowd gathers to sing and pray for his recovery. Joyce turns John's possible recovery into an obsession, harassing his health care professionals and alienating those around her, including her husband. In a heated moment, Joyce tells Brian that if not for her, John would be dead. After a brief and hurtful rebuttal, Brian storms off. Realizing she cannot control John's outcome, Joyce retreats to the roof of the hospital to pray, asking God for forgiveness and submitting to His will. It begins to snow, which she believes is an answer. She and Brian meet with Garrett, who tells them that the drugs they have been administering are becoming toxic to John's system and may be doing more harm than good. Joyce, who had been adamant about saving John's life at all costs, suggests stopping treatment and bringing him out of the coma, stating that she is ready for whatever fate brings. Garrett agrees. John is revived and slowly regains consciousness, reliving his accident. He hears his mother's voice and opens his eyes, with full cognitive ability. A few days later, he is discharged from the hospital and returns to school. John's return, though welcomed by many, is met with some resentment by others, who question why John was spared while their own loved ones died. This weighs on John's mind, and he returns to the lake, where he sees Tommy Shine, and thanks him for saving his life. Tommy admits that he did not believe in God until after a series of protracted events since John's accident, and all he did was pull John from the water. John reconciles his survival with a renewed sense of purpose in his life and rebuilds his relationships with those he had been alienating. An epilogue reveals that John is pursuing a career in ministry after graduating from high school. 

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Liu Zhi, a young man living a depressed life from his marriage with a dominating girl, met Baober (an ageless young girl) on Beijing street one day. They fell in love and started to live a strange, mysterious life.... One day Baober (Zhou Xun) finds a videotape made by Liu Zhi (Huang Jue) who thinks he has lost life's meaning. She sets out to find him and save him through love. 

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Urged on by her friend, Kaede Honjō begins playing the VRMMORPG NewWorld Online under the name Maple. Not wanting to get hurt, Maple opts to be a shield user with maxed out defense stats, and continues putting every status point she earns in the game into increasing only her defense level. As a result, she is left with slow foot speed and no magic, but her high defense allows her to endure most hits without taking any damage. This, along with her basic-level creative thinking, allows for her to make unexpected accomplishments in the game, its quests and events. By doing this, she ends up earning all kinds of equally unexpected skills and becomes one of the strongest players in the game. 

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In an unspecified Chinese village, a dishevelled Taoist priest unsuccessfully begs a pear seller for a single pear. However, an altruistic passer-by offers to buy the old man a pear, which he gladly accepts. The Taoist then offers to reciprocate by giving free pears to the crowd; he buries the pip of the pear in the ground and waters the soil with boiling water, shortly after which a mature pear tree sprouts. After handing out all of the tree's fruits to the passers-by, the Taoist cuts the tree down and heads off. The miserly pear seller, who had been caught up by the spectacle, only just realises that all his pears have gone missing – and his fruit cart has been sawn into pieces. Realising that the Taoist had employed sorcery against him, the fruit seller rushes to confront him, but he has disappeared without a trace. In his postscript, Pu Songling warns against being stingy, noting that "individuals (like the pear seller) are too numerous to list separately, so the example of such a foolish villager is anything but a surprise." 

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Beyond The Woods is a supernatural horror film set in a secluded holiday home on the eve of the opening of a mysterious fiery sinkhole that locals are calling "The Gates of Hell". Marissa and Jason invited their friends to Marissa's father's old house, which is now used as a holiday home. As the weekend progresses some of the friends start acting out of character. A few of them get very amorous. One of them disappears. One gets lost in the woods. 

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A 40 year old divorced school teacher decides to enter the Boston Marathon. 

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As described in a film magazine, Jean Hurst (Terry), a British army officer's wife in India, on the eve of the birth of her child, finds her husband dead, murdered on their doorstep. The child is born a cripple, and is a weakling and coward. Grown to manhood, because of his mother's hatred, David (Morrison) denounces the association of white people in the colony and marries Sarasvati (De La Motte), the goddess of a tribe that plans to overthrow their English rulers. Inheriting an estate and title in England, his mother hopes he will divorce his wife and marry the daughter of an army officer, but he remains steadfast. Learning of the sudden uprising of the native people, he risks his life to warn the British soldiers. When he returns to his bride, he finds that she has sacrificed her life for his. 

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Zagreus, the son of Hades, seeks to escape his father's realm in the Underworld. He is aided by his adoptive mother Nyx, who gives him a special mirror that empowers him via collected Darkness; the Gods of Olympus to whom he has reached out, who provide him with Boons that give him special powers, and his mentor Achilles, who provides him with weapons. Hades hinders Zagreus' progress by unleashing the Underworld's various residents on him, including the Fury Megaera, Zagreus' ex-lover (and later on her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone); a Lernean Bone Hydra; the legendary Theseus alongside his new partner Asterius, and finally Hades himself. It's eventually revealed that Zagreus wishes to escape the Underworld to find Persephone, his birth mother whom he never knew, having always been told he was the child of Nyx. Hades refuses to even allow her name to be spoken in his House and it is said that unimaginable punishment should befall anyone who disobeys his order. Nyx, on the other hand, decides to help Zagreus find the truth about his real mother for himself. After finally defeating Hades for the first time, Zagreus finds Persephone in Greece. After a tearful reunion, Zagreus discovers that since he is bound to the Underworld, he cannot survive long on the surface. Despite this, he promises to keep escaping to spend time with Persephone. Over the course of these visits, Persephone explains that she had a loving marriage to Hades (which the latter later states was a result of Zeus having "given" her to Hades as a gift for taking charge of the Underworld, something which Hades thought was incredibly disrespectful and never forgave Zeus for) until Zagreus was stillborn due to the Fates having decreed that Hades would never sire an heir. Persephone ran away in grief but refused to return to her birthplace on Olympus which she disliked. However, Zagreus was eventually brought back to life via Nyx's powers in an extremely lengthy process. Persephone refuses to return to the Underworld because she fears retribution from the Olympians should they discover the truth about her disappearance, especially her mother Demeter who has covered the mortal world in an endless winter in grief for her daughter. Zagreus convinces her to return by reminding her of the bonds of family and they finally sail down from Greece towards the House of Hades on the River Styx ferried by Charon. Persephone resumes her duties as Queen of the Underworld and Hades, now with a renewed respect for his son, allows Zagreus to continue his escape attempts under the guise of finding security vulnerabilities in the Underworld. In an epilogue, Persephone comes up with the idea of reconciling with the Olympians by inviting them all to a feast in the House of Hades. There they claim that Hades and Persephone eloped and had Zagreus, but avoid telling them about Persephone's resentment of Olympus and further add a false claim that due to her having eaten Underworld pomegranate seeds, she can only leave the Underworld a few months out of the year. The Olympians readily accept this explanation though it's implied they all know what really happened and simply wish to move on. Everyone now reconciled, Zagreus' new duties continue. 

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After the events of the previous book, Allan Karlsson and his friend Julius Johnsson are spending a luxurious life at a hotel in Bali, Indonesia, using the money they got from the previous book. During their stay, Julius meets an exile Indian Simran Aryabhat Chakarty Copaldas (later renamed himself as Gustav Svensson) and together decide to set up an asparagus farm and sold them as Swedish, while Allan himself got a tablet and entertained himself by reading the news. However, Julius, over time, realised that the money they have is running out and they may be unable to pay for the upcoming hotel's bills. Nevertheless, they both decided to celebrate Allan's 101st birthday before settling their finances. However, at the birthday celebration, Julius and Allan accidentally set off in the hot-air balloon (after Julius was playing around with the controls) they hired for the celebration. The two crash into the Indian Ocean and are picked up by a North Korean ship which is transporting four-kilograms of uranium to North Korea. As the North Korean captain is unwilling to call the ship anywhere lest they will be exposed, the two are to be brought to North Korea or to be thrown overboard instead. Hence, Allan decided to pose as a nuclear weapon expert and claim he can enrich the uranium, hence the two proceeded on to North Korea, despite actually being unable to produce a nuclear bomb. In North Korea, Allan met Kim Jong-un himself, and later the Swedish UN ambassador Margot Wallström who was there for unofficial secret peace talks with Kim. What Wallström didn't expect was that Kim organised a press conference on the Korean Central News Agency, announcing Allan as a nuclear weapon expert (also announced as Swiss instead of Swede by mistake) helping North Korea and praising the neutral nations for helping promoting peace with North Korea unlike Japan, South Korea or the United States. Seeing that Allan and Julius are just charlatans with no intentions of helping, she start making plans to help the both of them to escape. Meanwhile, Allan decides to buy as much time as possible, and starts planning to escape from North Korea, along with the briefcase of the uranium that was transported there. Allan managed to outwit the North Korean engineer by supplying him with formulas to keep him distracted and make a mess of the car so the North Korean driver transporting the two will have to leave, letting Allan take over the car. Eventually, Allan and Julius managed to reach the airport and checked in with the help of Wallström, while the engineer and the driver both committed suicide, while Kim, after discovering their escape, demanded Russia's help to track down Allan to kill him. The two, along with Wallström, fly to New York City to the UN headquarters there. Allan and Wallström meet the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who is not in a good mood that day. Although Allan made a good impression during an initial meeting with him, Allan unintentionally insults Trump when he is playing golf later, commenting on his golfing skills. After seeing Trump lost his temper, he decides against giving Trump the uranium. Allan catches up with Julius, and the both meet UN ambassador for Germany Konrad Breitner, and they have a nice conversation over dinner. Allan then proposed handing over the uranium over to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which the ambassador is happy to do. Allan then writes a note to Merkel to explain, before Allan and Julius left for Sweden. Back in Stockholm, Sweden, Allan and Julius spend what they have left on two beers. Left with no choice, they decide to meet up with Julius' friend, who actually got arrested. As Julius has a blister, the two approach a shop run by a lady Sabine Johnsson, who decided to give them some bandages after some convincing. Sabina laments that business at the Séance shop and the coffin shop nearby isn't going well, but still accepts the two to stay in the shop. With the help of both Allan and Julius, her coffin business blooms, but it is cut short when there is a mix-up of coffins, in which a nicely-decorated coffin is sent to a group of neo-nazis instead of a swastika, pro-nazi- decorated coffin. The neo-nazi Johnny Engvall, being humiliated, decides to sought after the group and gunned down the coffin shop, but Sabina, Allan and Julius managed to escape in a hearse. During their escape, they stopped by a pension house. Sabine and Julius decide to go back to clairvoyance and tries it on the pension manager. When she fainted, the trio decides to move on Malmö. 

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A female assassin, who after being poisoned and given less than 24 hours to live, goes on a manhunt through the streets of Tokyo and befriends a daughter of a past target. 

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In Li Shaohong's acclaimed coming-of-age drama, a teenage girl is taken to live with her aunt and grandmother in Beijing. Yan'ni (played by acclaimed Chinese actress Zhou Xun) is withdrawn and reclusive, believing that she has been abandoned by her parents and has no control over her fate. The fact that her extended family doesn?t have much hope for her future only compounds her depression. Surprising everyone in her hostile household, Yan'ni is accepted to college. But as she prepares to embark on her new life of higher education, an encounter with a delivery boy triggers a series of unexpected events that will change her life forever. Winner of the Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, STOLEN LIFE (SHEN SI JIE) is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles. This film is an official selection of the prestigious, award-winning Global Lens Collection, presented by the Global Film Initiative. 

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The films starts with SI Balachandran aka Balu, an honest police officer who heads to Pambinthurthu to confront and arrest V. R. Nadesan, an illegal liquor brewer. He fails to do so after a fellow policeman betrays him, and there, he is mauled to death by Nadeshan's hounds. The story progresses to 25 years later, where Madhavan Nair and his brother in law visit Pambinthurthu on the basis of the complaints put forward by the school staff on the island. Nadesan tries to oppose them. Chinnan is sent to help Madhavan, but the situation goes out of hand when Chinnan gets arrested. Hearing this, Raja arrives and frees Chinnan. He sets to eliminate Nadesan. Later, he enters as the opposite candidate to Nadesan in an upcoming election. Raging over Raja's influence on the localities, Nadesan lures and kills Chinnan. In revenge, Raja later kills Nadeshan. Raja wins the election and becomes a minister. 

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The movie revolves with the real life story of Rani Rasmani. Rasmnai brought up in a lower-middle-class family of Kolkata. She marries Rajchandra Das. After the death of her husband the courageous lady take charge of the zamindari and business and proved herself as an effective leader. She struggles against evil elements of society. 

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Leonard and Penny elope in Las Vegas, live streaming the ceremony for friends at home. Leonard wrote a touching cosmology-based wedding vow while Penny recites "You've Got a Friend in Me". When they kiss after he carries her over the threshold, Penny is still bothered that Leonard kissed Mandy two years ago and is outraged to hear they work together. When Leonard and Penny return home, she goes to her apartment alone. Sheldon, confused and hurt by Amy's indecision about their relationship, insults her before all their friends watching the wedding at Howard and Bernadette's house. Amy openly breaks up with him, upon which all leave except for Howard and Stuart, who actually see the wedding to the end. Sheldon calls his mother to return his great-grandmother's ring which he had intended for Amy, but Mary tells him to wait. Sheldon briefly considers dating Mandy to hurt Amy. He is angered that Penny knew Amy was unhappy and did not defend him. A dejected Leonard cannot believe he is spending his wedding night with Sheldon, though Sheldon always expected this. 

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A traditional and culturally rooted home maker from an orthodox Bengali family, Abhaya is an ardent devotee of Goddess Kali and is extremely attached to the temple of the house. At the same time, the evil inflicted on womankind pains Abhaya. She doesn't recollect fond memories of childhood and is instead reminded of the gory visions where she saw her mother succumb to domestic violence. One day, a sudden incident triggers those memories in Abhaya – she ends up answering her inner calling and becomes a force against the evil inflicted on womankind. As she confronts the inner strength that lies in her own self, she decides to stop condoning injustice and sets off to avenge heinous crimes committed to women. Her fearless spirit compels her to act. 

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Umpati is a man deeply rooted to Traditional value system and believes that men and women are born for separate duties. He is a famous Ayurveda Practitioner and dreams of an ideal, ritualistic wife who shares his values. Ishwari conversely is a free spirited, independent, empowered lady who is exceptionally talented and well trained in classical dance. She believes a woman is no lesser than a man. These two completely different personalities meet each other on a chilly morning at the holy Ghat across the Ganges in Haridwar. When two entirely different individuals, antipodal as personalities meet, their destinies having had a significant role to play, their respective worlds eventually come crashing down. But at this point, they've seen a long and happy spell with each other overcoming many challenges thrown on the way to rediscover herself Ishwari is bound to perform the challenging task of a housemaid a consultant a care giver and finally a lover to prove herself as a worthy wife not only to her husband umapati but also to all her in laws. Next she comes across challenges posed by the jealous Ganga Umapati's childhood friend who secretly wants to become Umapati's wife but fails to do so. And then comes challenges from Umapati's Aunt Mamoni who just cannot tolerate Ishwari and makes life very difficult for her. But Ishwari uses her intelligence to single handedly prove her innocence against every accusation and thereafter bring out the real culprits of the misdeeds for which she is falsely implicated. All these family drama finally culminate to a happy point when Ishwari finally proves that Mamoni Umapati's own sister Anjali and Mamoni's son Vishnu are involved in a robbery in their own house. After Mamoni Vishnu and Anjali are put behind bars by the Law peace returns to the Bhattacharya family and they start planning for Nandi and Dev's marriage to the daughters of the family Arati and Payel After this the family decide to go to Haridawar. On the way disaster strikes as their train derails and the sole survivors of the accident are Ishwari and Kakamoni. Everyone else Thammi Boroboumoni, Payel, Arati, Nandi and Umapati die in the train accident on the other side Ishwari's mother also suffers a massive heart attack in Haridwar and is assumed to be dead. After gaining consciousness Ishwari sees Umapati die due to lack of proper treatment in front of her eyes. This causes her a deep trauma and she suffers from major amnesia and mentally is transported back to be 10 years old girl. This comes as a big challenge for Dr. Ayush who is treating Ishwari and is also her secret childhood admirer. Later the story explored the life of a mentally unstable Ishwari after the sad demise of Umapati, the troubled yet exhilarating path that her life has taken on. Here comes Ayush, an old friend that adores Ishwari like no other, takes her by the hand and takes on the world with her. But then Ishwari in Episode 304 regains her memory and completely forgets Ayush and then leaves Ayush. Ayush then commits suicide and the serial ends on a sad note. 

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Yūji Itadori is an unnaturally fit high school student living in Sendai with his grandfather. He regularly avoids the track team due to his aversion to athletics, despite his innate talent for the sport. Instead, he chooses to join the Occult Research Club, where he is able to relax and hang out with his seniors, and leave school by 5:00 pm to visit his grandfather in the hospital. While he is on his deathbed, his grandfather instills two powerful messages within Yūji - "always help people" and "die surrounded by people". After his grandfather's death, Yūji interprets these messages as one statement - everyone deserves "a proper death". He is then confronted by Megumi Fushiguro, a who informs him of a high-grade cursed charm talisman at his school that Yūji recently made contact with. His friends at the Occult Club unsealed the talisman, a rotting finger, which attracted Curses to the school, creatures that are brought about through negative emotions and are strengthened by consuming magical powers present in sorcerers or such charms. Unable to defeat the Curses due to his lack of magical powers, Yūji swallows the finger to protect Megumi and his friends and becomes the host of Sukuna, a powerful Curse. Due to Sukuna's evil nature, all sorcerers are required to exorcise him (and by extension, Yūji) immediately. However, despite being possessed, Yūji is still able to retain control over his body for the most part. Seeing this, Satoru Gojō, Megumi's teacher, decides to take him to the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College to propose a plan to his superiors - postpone Yūji's death sentence until he consumes all of Sukuna's fingers, allowing them to kill him once and for all. 

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In 2006, a spaceship crashes in Brightburn, Kansas. Tori and Kyle Breyer, who are unable to conceive a child, look inside to find an infant. The couple adopts and names him Brandon. They hide the spaceship in their barn to hide the truth from him. In 2018, the ship begins transmitting an alien message, drawing Brandon to the barn. He tries to open the cellar, but Tori intervenes. Brandon begins to exhibit superhuman powers. One day during a trust exercise in PE, Brandon falls toward a girl in his class named Caitlyn; she lets him fall and accuses him of being a pervert, having previously seen him in her room at night. Caitlyn is forced to help Brandon up, and Brandon, frustrated by her actions, crushes her hand. That night, Brandon is once again drawn to the ship and breaks into the barn where it is hidden. Tori follows and sees him levitating, chanting the ship's message: "Take the world." Tori reveals the truth of his origin, and Brandon goes on a rampage. He develops heat vision, which he uses to slowly murder Caitlyn's mother, Erica, at the diner where she works. Police find a series of runic Bs drawn on a window while investigating Erica's disappearance. The next day, Brandon kills his uncle Noah by lifting and crashing his vehicle. The following morning, Tori and Kyle inform Brandon of Noah's death, but Brandon has no reaction, angering them both. Kyle accuses Brandon of murder and grabs him, and Brandon retaliates by violently shoving him. Kyle finds Brandon's blood-stained shirt and shows it to Tori, but she refuses to believe it. Kyle takes Brandon on a father-son hunting trip in the woods. Kyle attempts to shoot and kill Brandon with his hunting rifle, but the execution fails when the bullet bounces off the back of Brandon's head. Realizing what Kyle has just tried to do, Brandon chases him and kills him with heat vision. A sheriff arrives at the Breyers' and ask to see Brandon. Tori tells the sheriff that Kyle and Brandon aren't home, so he shows Tori the symbol found at the scenes of Erica's and Noah's deaths. Tori finds Brandon's notebook with drawings of his murders and his message to "take the world" and begins to believe Kyle. She tries calling Kyle, but Brandon answers and implies he is now coming for Tori. Brandon returns and begins destroying the house, easily killing all cops who come to the rescue. Remembering that the ship can injure Brandon, Tori runs to the barn and discovers Erica's mutilated body. As Brandon pursues her, Tori tries to talk down-to-earth to him about how much she loves him, appearing to share a genuine moment of compassion for each other. However, Tori then tries to stab him with a piece of the ship, which Brandon sees coming. Angered and heartbroken, Brandon flies Tori miles into the sky above the clouds and drops her to her death, just as an airplane approaches. The next day, we learn the airplane has mysteriously crashed into the farmhouse, with the news reporting that everyone on board was killed and that Brandon was the only survivor. During the credits, Brandon begins his worldwide attacks, which news reports cover. Brandon is also dubbed "Brightburn" by the media. A conspiracy theorist named Big T discusses the Brightburn incident and the existence of other super-beings, pleading with humanity to take action. 

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Maisha (Niuma Mohamed), head of local women's committee, was returning to home after the dance practice for a show to be hosted to celebrate their organization's first anniversary. On her way, she was followed by an unknown man wearing a black mask and holding a knife. She was mentally disturbed with the incidence while her caring elder sister, Maasha (Sheela Najeeb) and boyfriend Farish (Mohamed Manik), believed it to be her uncertainty. Farish discussed his plan to marry Maisha but she insisted on delaying it. Her brother-in-law Yanish (Yoosuf Shafeeu) returns from Sri Lanka and is shocked to hear about the masked man. One night, Yanish follows Maisha into the woods and discovers her secret affair with Ahusan (Ahmed Nimal), a friend of Farish, and their wicked plan. On a rainy night, when Maisha was alone in the house, she encounters the same man and was brutally raped. Yanish and Farish recommended to share the occurrence with concerned authority though Maasha decides to conceal it fearing a scandal might tarnish family's reputation. A month later Maisha discovers that she is pregnant and Maasha suggested to abort the child considering their family's esteem. However, Maisha determined to keep the baby creating disputes and quarrels among the siblings. Maisha gives birth to a baby boy. She decides to end her relationship with Farish despite his love and affection towards her. Maasha opined that the baby looks familiar to Farish implying him as the rapist. Suspicious of Ahsan, Farish follows him to a warehouse where he locates the costume and knife used to frighten Maisha. Maisha tore Ahsan's shirt and notifies that the rapist has a birth mark on his chest but Ahsan doesn't. Ahsan swiftly reveals the mark on Farish's chest much to Maisha's surprise. She informs the discovery to Yanish and Maasha. Once Maisha mentions the mark, Maasha tore off Yanish's shirt revealing a similar mark on his chest too. Maisha differs to believe it since Maasha stated that Yanish is infertile. However, he owns up the child and reveals Maasha's wicked plan. Maasha underwent a sterilization procedure to prevent pregnancy. She assigns Ahsan to scare Maisha and murders her by drowning in the sea. Maasha plans to transfer all the properties into her name after Maisha's death and marries Ahsan afterwards. Yanish hid Ahsan's coat and used it the night he raped Maasha inorder to confirm his fertility. Yanish schemed to blame the incidence on Ahsan, and puts the coat to Ahsan's warehouse where Farish finds it. He divorced Maisha and leaves. Maisha apologizes to Farish and they reunite. 

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Eva and Kat's humble, yet carefree, life in their London canal boat is turned upside down when Eva gives Kat an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she's always envisaged with Eva. When Kat's best friend from Barcelona, Roger, stops by to party with them, the three toy around with the idea of creating a baby together. Feeling backed into a corner, Kat consents. Surprisingly, the unusual do-it-yourself donor insemination is successful. As Eva enjoys her pregnancy and Roger fantasizes about his role in the new family, Kat begins to feel like a third wheel and starts to distance herself. When Eva has an unexpected miscarriage, everyone's true feelings are laid bare, leading Eva and Kat to break up while Roger prepares to go back to Barcelona. The three soon realize, however, that they can't survive without each other, and a new journey begins to build a family.Visit Films 

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Rudra Srivastava (Arunoday Singh), a senior inspector of Uttarakhand police is lured into kidnapping a young girl named Anusha (Monica Chaudhary), at her mother (Mahie Gill)'s request. The plot begins as a simple plan to extort money in exchange for Anusha. This series revolves around crime, thriller, mystery and suspense with action and comedy sequences. Apharan is based on the 70s era with the feeling of nostalgia and the great suspense and mystery. The story follows a cop 'Rudra' who was falsely accused and ends up in jail for 3 years. The plot is all about the mystery of the murder of a kidnapped girl. 

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Ma Ji (马骥), courtesy name Longmei (), is a rakish scholar who graduates at fourteen while "(acquiring) the sobriquet of the Beauty" with his fine manners and appreciation of the arts. However, his ageing father dissuades him from continuing his current lifestyle, and advises him to be a trader instead. Out at sea, the junior Ma encounters a typhoon and is shipwrecked on an island inhabited by grotesque and impoverished creatures. Initially treated as a pariah, most of the creatures slowly warm up to Ma when they realise that their fears of his being a "man-eater" () are unfounded. Ma learns from the villagers that they had long regarded China as a mythical country; he also finds out that social hierarchy in their country – Raksha – is determined by beauty. Ma is accompanied by the villagers to the capital of Raksha, whose walls are described as ink-black and whose gatehouses are 100 chi () high. They spot the Prime Minister, who has three nostrils and eyelashes "like bamboo screens hanging in front of his eyes" and is flanked by less ugly officials. Shunned by virtually all the city folk, Ma is introduced to a former Raksha diplomat, who is now a supercentenarian. The old man agrees to take Ma to the palace but his memorial to the throne is rejected by the king's ministers on the grounds that Ma's "appearance was so hideous it might frighten His Majesty". Ma is disappointed by the news and has a few drinks with his aged host; while inebriated, Ma paints his face black and impersonates Zhang Fei. The former diplomat persuades Ma to reproduce the act for the officials who are quickly enraptured by his "beautiful" makeup and "bewitching" singing. Ma wins the king's favour and is appointed to the privy council. However, he becomes increasingly ostracised by the other officials who become aware that he is only disguising himself. Under the pretext of sickness, Ma returns to the village and gifts the villagers with gold and precious stones. To reciprocate, they offer to fetch rare pearls from the "sea market" – a trading hub that also houses the mermaids' treasures – but warn Ma against accompanying them. Ma nonchalantly decides to board a ship bound for the sea market. The vessel reaches the sea market in three days and its passengers are greeted by walls "as long as a man's body" and buildings extending to the Milky Way. The third Prince of the Dragon Palace soon makes his entrance, whereupon he jubilantly welcomes Ma and takes him to the Dragon King. The king demands that the Chinese scholar write some poetry for him; Ma "immediately (throws) off some thousand odd verses". Assuming that Ma is a bachelor, the king allows him to marry his daughter. The following three years are blissful ones for Ma, and he is well-received both as the Dragon King's son-in-law and a palace official. However, he becomes homesick and beckons his wife to return to his hometown with him. The princess replies that she cannot do so, but approves of his desire to return to his parents. The king makes the necessary arrangements. As they are preparing to bid farewell to each other, the princess reveals that she is pregnant; Ma tells her to name the child Longgong () if a daughter and Fuhai () if a son. He also hands her a pair of jade lilies as a memento. She informs him that in three years from their separation, she will hand him the baby on the eighth day of the fourth month. Ma Ji is reunited with his parents, and discovers that his former wife has since remarried another man. He decides to honour his marital vows with the dragon princess and only takes a concubine. Three years later, he returns to the site of the sea market where he is greeted by twins – a boy and a girl – and a letter from the princess in which she bemoans their separation, by referencing the stories of Chang'e and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The children ask Ma to take them back home, to which he wistfully replies, "Where is your home?" Back home, Ma's ailing mother passes on; the princess briefly attends her mother-in-law's funeral and in a strange series of events, Ma's mother's coffin vanishes. Thereafter, Fuhai goes in search of his mother but Longgong, being a female, cannot accompany him. However, the princess travels to Earth to pay both her children a visit and gifts them with camphor, pearls, and a coral tree, among other precious items. Ma rushes to greet his lover but she disappears in a clap of thunder. 

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The gang prepares for Leonard and Penny's second wedding ceremony. Sheldon and Leonard fear that Mary slept with Alfred the previous night, though they swear nothing happened. They do, however, plan to visit each other, irritating Beverly. Penny's family arrives. Her mother worries that her son's recent jail stint will cause Leonard's family to think of them as white trash. The ceremony goes well, with Leonard and Penny declaring their love for each other, Beverly and Alfred grateful they at least made Leonard together during their relationship, and Sheldon declaring his love for the couple. Howard is contacted by Colonel Richard Williams of the Air Force Research Laboratory, who scares both him and Raj. Howard eventually agrees to meet him, but the colonel refuses to give the reason for his interest. 

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David (Shaul Shalhin) is a twelve years old boy living with his father (Arieh Elias). The father quit his job and god drunk after his wife left home and become penniless, unable to support his only child. The father alienated his son and hit him, David's only comfort is his loyal dog and his neighbour Tamar (Hannah Shalhin), a cripple girl he is hanging around with. Two culprits offers him a solution to his financial mishap: they ask him to join them to a burglary. The burglary happened to be a failure, his two partners arrested and the police try to catch David. David's father, see his son's misfortune, went to his aid. 

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Professional hitman Wilkes (Tom Bateman) has just finished murdering a never-to-be-named famous man in his lavish apartment. Sipping a glass of the dead man's wine and tasting his casu marzu, Wilkes receives a call from his employer and lets him know he finished the job. The only thing left is to remove the body. Wilkes wraps it up like a mummy and drags it through the hotel lobby and into the street. He is seen by several people, but they assume it is all part of his Halloween costume. On the city streets, Wilkes bumps into three young people who are on their way to a party: Alan Morgan Adams ("of the Massachusetts Morgan Adamses") (David Hull), Dorothy (Aurora Perrineau) and Nick (Harvey Guillén). Thinking his costume is cool, they ask him to join them, and he accepts the offer only to get a ride away from the police, who are nearby investigating the vandalism of parked cars. The party itself is an elaborate Halloween costume party held at mansion, and hosted by trust fund baby Jack Baker (Ray Santiago). Wilkes drags the wrapped corpse in, and it attracts the interest of partiers who believe it is a prop. The taciturn Wilkes has no use for the party. He also doesn't attempt to hide who he is, relying instead on everyone's acceptance that it's a Halloween act. He is chatted up by Maggie (Rebecca Rittenhouse), an employee of Jack who is dressed as Marie Antoinette. She agrees to give him a ride to leave the party. However, their departure is slowed by the gang of partiers - Jack, Alan, Dorothy and Nick - who eventually discover that the corpse is real (and was still alive until Jack trampled it). Upon this revelation, Wilkes kills Nick with a thrown knife and vows to kill the others. But Jack tricks Maggie into opening a booby-trapped drawer, and the distraction allows Jack, Alan and Dorothy to escape with the corpse (Alan thinks there will be a reward). Jack locates a police officer (Max Adler) and brings him to the body in a parking garage. Maggie is left behind with Wilkes and, curiously fascinated with the hitman, offers him help (though he will repeatedly tell her "there is no we"). They escape Jack's rigged room and pursue the trio with the body. This leads to Wilkes slitting the policeman's throat. The chase proceeds through the streets, with Maggie using her technology skills to track the trio and frame them for the cop's murder. Increasingly bickering with one another, Jack, Alan and Dorothy set out to destroy the body, first trying acid, then taking him to an incinerator at a funeral home. The pursuit takes both groups through a cemetery, where Wilkes and Maggie kiss before he stabs her and leaves her for dead. On his own now, Wilkes catches up with the trio at the funeral home. He kills a security guard and then Jack, who has broken off from the others. Dorothy and Alan have the body in the incinerator room and are waiting for the oven to heat up. When Wilkes arrives, they try to shoot and strangle him, but fail. Wilkes kills Alan, then Dorothy accidentally shoots herself when a bullet intended for the hitman bizarrely rebounds off a flimsy metal tray and strikes her in the middle of her forehead. Wilkes finally recovers the body and calls his employer to inform him that everything is in order. While on the phone, however, he is shot by Maggie, who has survived the stabbing. She uses police tape found nearby to wrap up Wilkes' body and drags it to a dumpster. On the way, she passes a group of people and tells them it is all part of her Halloween costume. "Amazeballs," one of them responds. 

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In a flashback sequence, the Tooms family - Henry, Rose and their teenage daughter Kimberly - are sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, sharing their thoughts about what they have to be thankful for. Nearly a year later in the present, Rose Tooms has been murdered and her killer has not been found. Henry (Dermot Mulroney) spends much of his time renovating their house, which Kimberly (Diana Silvers) cannot leave due to a severe case of agoraphobia. Kimberly is taking medication, she spends her time on an online agoraphobia support group, and she meets regularly in her home with a therapist, Dr. Helen Saunders (Tembi Locke), who is becoming dissatisfied with the lack of progress. For her 17th birthday present, Kimberly receives from her father a necklace with a charm on it. When watching a television news report about a recently abducted teen girl, Kimberly notices that the charm on the gifted necklace looks identical to the one the missing girl is wearing. She goes online to research case of other missing young females, and notices they look similar to her dead mother. Suspicious of her father, Kimberly searches his room and the attic, finding evidence that appears to incriminate him. She calls her aunt for help with the intent of leaving the home, but can't due to her agoraphobia. Tensions mount in the house. Kimberly confronts her dad, accusing him of killing the missing females and her mom. At one point, she feels threatened by her father and calls 911. However, her father convinces her that she needs him, and when two LAPD officers arrive, Kimberly recants her accusation. The officers leave the home, but before they do, one of them gives Kimberly her card. Kimberly goes online to research Propofol, a bottle of which she has found among her father's belongings. Discovering that it is an anesthetic and sedative, she becomes more convinced that her father is a killer. Meanwhile, Henry has located evidence of his daughter's snooping. Father and daughter become violent towards each other. Kimberly slashes Henry with a knife after he lunges at her. He chases and catches her, injects her with Propofol, and locks her in her room. She escapes her room, but not the house, and Henry catches her again after a chase in which they cause considerable damage to the house. Dr. Saunders arrives for her next session, and Henry warns Kimberly that if she says anything, someone will get hurt. He also sits in on the therapy session. When Kimberly goes to the kitchen to make tea, she puts Propofol in her father's cup and a slips a note ("Need Help, call 911") under Dr. Saunders'. The doctor notices the note as she's leaving, upon which Henry pulls her back into the house and kills her with a box cutter. Henry ties up Kimberly and confesses to his murders, but he blames Kimberly for the therapist's death. The Propofol kicks in, however, and he is temporarily knocked out. Kimberly is able to grab the box cutter and free herself. She calls the police officers, who instruct her to leave the home, but she cannot. Henry awakes and attacks Kimberly. Noticeably crazed, he pours gasoline throughout the home and sets it on fire. In the attic, Kimberly entices Henry into walking over a covered hole in the floor, and he tumbles below and is eventually consumed by the fire. Kimberly crawls out a window to escape the burning house and waits for the police to arrive. 

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Unemployed actor Wilson Clowes (Nyasha Hatendi), moves into a new apartment building to start a new life, befriending a fellow resident, an older woman named Red (Dale Dickey). He finds a vague audition announcement in a coffee shop and attends. After an unusual physical component, Wilson is offered the acting job by Finn (Jon Daly), the advertising director for a new Christmas toy called Pooka. A stuffed animal with large eyes, Pooka selectively repeats what it hears in either a "naughty" or "nice" voice, and Wilson's job will be to portray Pooka in a large, furry costume in both advertisements and live appearances. Wilson is informed that he will be the sole actor portraying Pooka. He accepts after realizing how much he will be paid. Wilson's portrayal of Pooka coincides with the toy's skyrocketing popularity. However, the costume begins having strange side effects on the actor. When wearing the costume in "naughty" mode, Wilson is prone to violent outbursts and hallucinations and will have no recollection of them afterwards. Meanwhile, Finn manages to get Wilson the business card of Melanie (Latarsha Rose), a real estate agent to whom he has become attracted after seeing her first at a Christmas tree farm, then at one of his in-store events. Wilson attends an open house showing put on by Melanie, and the two hit it off and soon start dating. Wilson manages to get Melanie's son Ty (Jonny Berryman) a Pooka toy, much to the boy's pleasure. They go to the Christmas tree lot and pick one out together and later put it up in Melanie's house. Wilson's hallucinations continue, and he has a vision of himself as naughty Pooka entering Red's apartment and killing her. However, when he visits her apartment, she appears unharmed, and as they talk, Wilson remembers that he made his life change to get away from some sort of pain that he thinks he caused. Wilson offers to have Pooka appear at Ty's birthday party, and he appears in costume. The lack of Ty's father-figure at the party causes one of the older kids to point this out to Ty, and comments that everyone knows why his father isn't there. This triggers Wilson into naughty Pooka, and we see the room turns red from Pooka's eyes. He then attacks the child in front of Ty, causing him to be frightened. Melanie still has no idea that Wilson is Pooka, who is upset that the guy in the Pooka costume would attack a child and later discusses it with Wilson. Wilson seems to not acknowledge that it was him in the costume, and takes Melanie's concern as blame and gets very angry. He then sees that the tree that they had gotten with Ty is gone, and accuses Melanie of not trusting him. Melanie does not know what tree he is talking about, it is implied there never was one. She demands that Wilson leave. The Pooka toy suffers a widespread malfunction, causing all the toys to repeat only the distorted phrase in Pooka's naughty voice: "Look at all the pretty lights." Pooka's popularity plummets and Wilson is let go from his job. During an encounter in a bar, however, Finn tells Wilson that there never was a Pooka, and Wilson realizes the bar he's in is actually empty. As all this occurs, the costume appears to be inseparable from Wilson, who is seen visibly hyperventilating until he puts the Pooka head on. With the Pooka costume on, he goes to Melanie's house and leaves a box with a Pooka toy which is relaying an apology for his outburst. Melanie is disturbed and out the window sees Pooka watching from across the street. A pedestrian then gets into a fight with Wilson, and takes the Pooka head, exposing Wilson as Pooka to Melanie. Wilson's hallucinations worsen. One night, he arrives at his apartment building to find that Red has fallen to her death. The onlookers and investigators imply it was an accidental death due to Red being drunk, but suspecting the sentient Pooka which Wilson has been hallucinating, he goes up to Red's apartment and finds Pooka coated in gasoline and with fire in its eyes. Afraid that Pooka will now go after Melanie and Ty, Wilson calls Melanie to warn that they are in danger, but Ty picks up and quickly dismisses Wilson by saying they have to go to the Christmas tree farm to get a new tree. Wilson goes to the farm and finds the sentient Pooka costume, which he attacks with an ax and seemingly kills. When he goes to Melanie's house, she no longer appears to be living there, and when he goes to the open house home where they first met, he sees the truth about his past. Wilson and Melanie were, in fact, husband and wife and lived in the open house. Wilson in the Pooka costume watched as past-Wilson, prone to violent outbursts, destroys the Christmas Tree and breaking it in half while Ty watches from the doorway. Past-Wilson pleads with Melanie and Ty to go to the tree lot and get a new tree with him, causing Pooka-Wilson to plead to past Melanie to not listen to his past self as he watches the final scene play out, but she cannot hear him. In the closing scene, Pooka-Wilson witnesses his past self trying to make up for his violence by driving Melanie and Ty to a Christmas tree farm. During the drive, Melanie attempts to distract Ty from Wilson's frantic driving by remarking "look at all the pretty lights," but Wilson, looking in the rear-view mirror at Melanie and Ty, crashes head-on into another car. He is thrown from the vehicle, and Melanie and Ty are killed when it explodes. The driver of the other car was Red, who was killed in the crash. 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Alexis, a babysitter, and the child she cares for both watch a video featuring Danielle Williams, a popular social media influencer and "content creator" who is receiving her own television show "Very Very Vegetable". Later, Alexis returns to her house to prepare for a New Year's Eve party while admiring how "perfect" Danielle's life appears to be. Her high-school friends Kaela and Chloe arrive, and they all catch up, discussing their friendship with Danielle before she became famous and the possibility that she may not show up. Later on, she does, though tension mounts between her and Alexis. While going about their night, Danielle unknowingly annoys the others by filming them for her Instagram and not knowing about their lives. As the girls are enjoyed the party, however, during a game of "Never Have I Ever", Alexis loses her temper at Danielle during the latter's turn before saying she never bullied a girl named Kelsey until she commit suicide. Danielle attempts to move on, but Alexis waterboards her with champagne, counts down to midnight, then turns to the other girls to tell them to tie her up like they all agreed to. With Danielle tied up with balloon strings, Alexis berates her for bullying each one of them before revealing that she intends to record her confessing her role in Kelsey's suicide and ruin her career. Danielle agrees, but only says she should've done more to stop Kelsey's bullying without admitting to doing it herself. In response, Alexis smears the products from Danielle's make-up line that the latter had given to them as gifts in Danielle's face and cuts off a section of her hair with broken glass to make her more "camera-ready." This becomes too much for Kaela, who leaves the room to FaceTime her girlfriend, Frankie. When Alexis follows Kaela out, Danielle attempts to convince Chloe to set her free by offering Chloe her spot on the YouTube channel she will be leaving. Chloe starts to untie her just before the others get back. After Alexis and Kaela return, Danielle attacks Alexis, knocking her out. Danielle and Chloe lock Alexis and Kaela inside a sauna, intending to wait until they die before calling the cops so they will see the deaths as an accident. Danielle refuses to let them live, lest her dark past be revealed, and her career ruined. Chloe seems unsure but Danielle ultimately convinces her otherwise. Alexis and Kaela eventually discover a champagne bottle and, using it to smash the window of the sauna, nearly escape only to run into Danielle and Chloe. They hide in Alexis's closet before Alexis leaves to find her phone, leaving Kaela alone. Chloe finds Kaela, who tries to convince her to walk away and keep everything secret. Chloe claims Kaela doesn't want her to succeed and accidentally kills her. Meanwhile, Danielle corners Alexis and cuts her calf, but she's able to get away. A shaken Chloe comes down to meet Danielle while Alexis tends to her wound. Frankie arrives looking for Kaela because she didn't answer her phone. Danielle and Chloe decide to frame her for the murders, and after letting her in, Chloe kills her. Alexis runs upstairs and prepares to defend herself. When her ex-friends give chase, Alexis knocks Chloe down the stairs, killing her. Danielle then engages Alexis in another fight, only for Alexis to throw Danielle out of a window to her death in the pool. Later on, an influencer who worked with Danielle discusses how Frankie killed Danielle after the latter encouraged Kaela to end the relationship. Alexis stands next to her, and, after taking a moment to "grieve", she immediately becomes bubbly and films her own video, happy that she now has Danielle's life. 

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The story starts right from the word "Go!". Bala (G. V. Prakash Kumar) comes out of a police station and seems very nervous about something. As he is striding on his bike thinking about gathering money to pay back his loan, he stumbles upon a big villa. Once, he hears that everyone from that house is not in town that night, so he decides to rob the house. When he climbs the villa's compound wall and jumps on the other side, his fall is deep. The task and the wall seemed possible at first, but then, just as Bala, we fall into something deeper. Bala's multiple attempts to somehow break into the villa without causing a scene gets him face to face with Bruno, the dog. Finally, after failed attempts to escape Bruno, he gains courage and gets into the villa which leads him into even more darker paths. He realises that the villa is not empty. It is filled with mysteries. Terrorists who escaped from prison got into this villa to get revenge on the owner of it, who is an Ex-DIG. Bala too gets into this spiderweb revenge. With a lot of struggle of himself and the dog with which he came face to face with, Bala and the owner of the villa get rid of the terrorists. In recognition of Bala's help in getting rid of terrorists and saving his life, the Ex-DIG grants Bala his loan amount and a job as a guard, which Bala corrects it as Watchman. 

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Employees working at South Park's new Amazon fulfillment center continue to strike. They are led by Josh Carter, a former "fulfiller" at the center who was compressed into a small Amazon box. However, the zombie-like former employees from the South Park Mall have agreed to work at the center as temporary employees. Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick are pleased to see that they are finally receiving the items they purchased from Amazon for the town's upcoming bike parade, where they hope to win first prize. Jeff Bezos, who is depicted as an alien Talosian from Star Trek, observes these developments through cameras in the public's Amazon Echo devices. He has Josh kidnapped and tells a group of small children that Josh's box holds a bike parade gift, prompting them to rip it open. This causes his compressed organs to explode, killing him. Mayor McDaniels, who convinced Bezos to open the fulfillment center in South Park, witnesses this and is horrified. Stuart McCormick is angered that his son Kenny is not boycotting Amazon in solidarity with the strikers. Kenny becomes disillusioned with the commercialism in which he has participated and tells his friends he will not join them in the bike parade, prompting their fear that they cannot win it without him. When the center's manager Stephen Stotch learns that Josh has been kidnapped, he continues to feel torn between supporting the workers and his family, especially his son, Butters, who is overjoyed to receive a new bike for the parade. Tegridy Farms, the cannabis farm owned by Stan's father Randy Marsh, whose profitability has been damaged by the strike, suddenly sees an increase in business as the strikers come to him for marijuana to relieve their stress. When he is daunted by competition from other farms, Randy's friend Towelie suggests that they use the e-scooters that began appearing in the episode "The Scoots" so that Tegridy Farms can offer its own delivery to customers. The boys scheme to force the parade's cancellation. However, when they shop for materials to make signs for their campaign, they discover that the fulfillment center has forced the closure of all of the town's local businesses, a development for which McDaniels is guilt-ridden. When Santa Claus arrives in town, the possibility of his solving the crisis with Christmas magic is raised, but when he learns that his fellow Christmas character Mr. Hankey was driven out of town for inappropriate tweets (in the episode "The Problem with a Poo"), he angrily leaves town as quickly as he arrived. The despondent boys commiserate over their inability to provoke outrage. The boys go to City Hall to demand the bike parade's cancellation, but find Bezos sitting at McDaniels' desk. Bezos says that the parade increased local purchases at Amazon, and led all the townsfolk who wanted "fulfillment" to go to work at the fulfillment center. He orders his Amazon Echo to kill Kenny because he sees Kenny's activism as a threat. The entire town's citizenry shows up at City Hall, (all high from Randy's marijuana) where Randy tells Bezos that they now all have "Tegridy", and have all quit the fulfillment center. The bike parade goes on as planned, with Cartman pulling Kenny's coffin on his bike, as the town returns to normal. 

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Thamarai (Bommu Lakshmi) and her husband Sathish (Tej Raj) visit a drug rehabilitation center for a counseling session with a psychologist named Dr. Priyadarshini (Devadarshini), but Sathish, who is a rowdy, walks out with haste. Thamarai then starts to narrate how Rita (Oviya) moved to their apartment, where she mingles with the neighbors Kajal (Masoom Shankar), Paru (Shree Gopika), Suganya (Monisha Ram), and Thamarai. One day, Rita notices Thamarai crying and gets to know that it is her birthday and that her husband was not even aware of it, but she decides to throw a party at a terrace, where they all drink beer and open up their personal lives. They go to Tasmac, where Sathish comes and picks them up. Later, Thamarai and Sathish cozy up relationship and have sex, but he warns her to never meet her drunkard friends. Eventually after sometimes, they all meet in Rita's house as Suganya asked for a party where she goes mad, but she reveals that her lover Chris is getting married at Pondicherry. They all go there, kidnap the couple, and bring them to Suganya — she runs and hugs the bride, leaving everyone in shock. They end up in a police station, where they are sent off with a warning. Rita's boyfriend and Sathish have a small scuffle. Later, Rita's boyfriend Venky (Anson Paul) agrees for marriage, which she declines, and they break up. They all meet up with Suganya and her partner, where they decided to switch to cannabis from drinks. They seek help of two single youths to get weed, but they are chased by cops. They endup in a crossfire between Sathish and his rivalry gang, but he saves them. Kajal then tells that her husband has an affair. They all go there and ridicule him, and Paru says that she has not consummated her marriage. She confronts her husband, and he tells that he was in love with another girl and was forced into marriage, so they decide to divorce. Finally, Thamarai cries out and seeks her friends' help to free Sathish from his bald boss. They all go to his hideout, fight the henchmen, and hold the boss at gunpoint, while Sathish comes to save him. Later, they all are partying (again), where a guy says to her lover that he does not believe in marriage; he is not anyone's property, and they breakup. They all watch him and suggest that he is more like Rita. She walks to him gives him a lip lock. 

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During a calamity known as the Great World Blaze, fires from mass spontaneous human combustions killed half the world's population. Certain humans developed pyrokinetic abilities during and subsequent to the event, and became known as the Burnish. Thirty years later, Galo Thymos lives in the city of Promepolis, where he works as member of the firefighting group Burning Rescue. The group responds to incidents involving Mad Burnish, a group of radical Burnish accused of being terrorists. Galo defeats Lio, the leader of Mad Burnish; he is brought to a prison for Burnish by Freeze Force, a police force overseen by the city governor Kray Foresight. Lio orchestrates a mass breakout and retreats with the prisoners to a frozen lake, where he is discovered by Galo. After being incapacitated by Lio, Galo witnesses him attempt to revive a mortally injured Burnish using a mouth-to-mouth flame transfer technique. Lio reveals to Galo that Kray is capturing Burnish for use in human experiments. Galo confronts Kray, who informs him that the Earth will soon be destroyed by an uncontrollable surge of magma from the earth's core. He discovers that the abilities of the Burnish can be used to create a warp drive, which he intends to use to flee Earth with a select portion of humanity. Meanwhile, Freeze Force track the Burnish remnants and recapture all but Lio. Lio returns to the city to confront Kray, though Galo intervenes and retreats with Lio to the frozen lake. Lio's flames melt the ice and reveal a laboratory run by a holographic projection of Deus Prometh, a scientist killed by Kray. Deus explains that the Burnish are able to communicate with the Promare, a race of inter-dimensional flame beings that reside in Earth's core; the surging magma is a side effect of subjecting the Promare to pain, and Kray's experiments on the Burnish are accelerating its growth. In a mecha of Deus' design, known as the Deus X Machina, Galo and Lio return to the city to confront Kray. In the battle, Kray reveals that he is a Burnish, and attempts to use Lio to power the warp drive. Though this nearly kills Lio, Galo revives him using the mouth-to-mouth technique. Together, Galo and Lio combine the drive and their mecha to protect life on Earth while allowing the Promare to envelop the surface, causing the Promare to burn out and vanish completely. The Burnish become normal humans, and Galo and Lio resolve to rebuild the world together. 

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Icaria is set in the year 2027. Science has made a breakthrough in genetics and transplantology, which promised immortality. However, participants recruited for this immortality experiment are required to participate in a death adventure TV game show. 

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The novel was written in the form of an autobiography from the perspective of a young widow, Yamuna. The story spans the life of Yamuna and the reader is introduced to the many people in her life—nearly 40 characters. Yamuna's story begins with a short-lived but idyllic childhood. Although happy, it was darkened by the fear Yamuna's mother and grandmother shared over their insecurity as dependents. At twelve she is married to a young man, Raghunathrao. He is liberal and wants to make Yamuna but he is unable to change her family circumstances. Yamuna is tortured by her in-laws and denied freedom of any kind. When Yamuna's mother dies, her father promptly remarries, this time to a twelve-year-old girl. Her brother's stupid wife makes a hell of Yamuna's married life and although Yamuna and her brother, Ganpatrao, are very affectionate towards each other, there is no happiness in their father's house. Yamuna and her husband move to Bombay where they both find some happiness. In Bombay she meets some reformist families who show her what it's like to have freedom. While there, Yamuna frees her friend Durga from her depraved husband and her brother comes to stay with her to continue his education. Yamuna's husband dies after a brief illness and her happiness and freedom are suddenly over. Yamuna is forced to return to her father-in-law in Shanker, who has now married a young girl of twelve. Yamuna's in-laws rob her of her gold and forcefully shave her head in the name of sacred custom (tonsure). Her brother cannot do anything to protect her. She dies some time after having written her life story. 

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A year after the rockslide in Geiranger, geologist Kristian Eikjord is preparing to appear on a talk show, and is hailed as a hero for saving hundreds of lives in the disaster. Three years later, Idun is divorcing him and he is separated from Sondre and Julia. Kristian is living in seclusion in the mostly rebuilt Geiranger, while his family moves to Oslo. Idun has a new job as a hotel worker at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel. Julia comes to visit Kristian for a weekend in Geiranger. Disappointed by how little he tends to her, she requests to go back home. That night, she discovers a secret room in Kristian's house dedicated to the 250 fatalities of the tsunami. She confronts Kristian about this, who reveals he feels responsible for their deaths. Despite Julia's admonishment that she now wants to stay the weekend, Kristian still sends her home early, calling her distractive. Sometime later, he hears on the news of the death of a colleague, Konrad Lindblom, in the Oslofjord Tunnel. Then, along with some research Kondrad had sent him, Kristian is prompted to travel to Oslo to investigate the circumstances of Konrad's death. Upon arriving in Oslo, Kristian meets with Konrad's supervisor, Johannes Løberg. Johannes tries to ensure Kristian that there was nothing to worry about, due to a new up-to-date monitoring system, which showed that much of the seismic activity that Konrad was worried about was only construction being done across the city, and surrounding areas. Kristian leaves, still unsure, but with Johannes' promise to contact him with any updates. Kristian then visits Kondrad's home, only to meet with his former colleague's daughter, Marit. There, Kristian discovers Konrad's research, including core samples and a map that has recorded more serious seismic activity than Johannes was claiming. He calls Johannes, who mostly ignores him, but promises to look into it. That night Kristian visits Idun at her apartment, only to run into his son, Sondre. Sondre, although happy to see his father, awkwardly introduces his girlfriend to Kristian, after which they leave for a movie. Indun and Kristian have a tense moment saying hello, Kristian apologizes for sending Julia back home early, and returns Julia's scarf. Idun invites Kristian to Julia's ballet recital the next day, and he accepts. After talking some about their separation, Kristian attempts to tell Indun about his concerns, only to be interrupted by a power outage, being the second one that week, according to Indun. They try to replace the fuse, to no avail, Idun gets scared by some rats, Kristian tries to console her saying he doesn't blame her for leaving him, only for Idun to say that he left them first. The next day Kristian returns to Konrad's house, and after seeing some more concerning research, convinces Marit to take him to the tunnel where her father died. Arriving there, Kristian discovers that his colleague was killed by a collapse in the tunnel he was studying and a core sample Konrad was attempting to recover, shortly before his death. On Kristian's way back to the city, Indun calls him asking his where he is, and that he was missing Julia's recital. Kristian attempts to assure Idun he's on his way, only to be distracted by very easily snapping the core sample he discovered in half, which shouldn't have been so fragile, given it was made of solid stone. Just then, a massive power outage takes out all the electricity in the city, then disconnects their call. Seconds later a seismic rift destroys the Oslo Opera House, where Jula was doing her recital. Idun safely gets Julia out of the building, finding her daughter underneath a tipped-over table. Kristian arrives at the Opera house, only to find police, ambulances, and people fleeing the scene. He calls Idun to check on her, and she informs him that her and Julia are on their way home. Kristian offers to come over, and Idun accepts. Kristian then confronts Johannes, smashing the fragile core sample on the ground in frustration. Johannes tries to calm Kristian down, telling him the Opera house's support beams were giving way, and that's why it collapsed. Kristian leaves after failing to convince Johannes about the growing seismic activity and defeatedly tells Marit to go home. That night, Kristian visits Idun and apologizes for missing the recitial. Idun asks him why he's here, and Kristian, breaks down and says he's always looking for the next disaster. They embrace as Kristian cries, and the couple spends the night together. The next morning, both Sondre and Julia wake up, surprised to see their father standing in the kitchen. Sondre leaves for the university, and Julia asks Kristian if he and Idun are getting back together, to which Kristian replies he's unsure. Meanwhile, Marit, while cleaning out her father's office, discovers something on her father's computer, which she records, and rushes over to Idun's apartment to show Kristian. Kristian watches the video, which shows that Konrad was using rats to research his theories, and those rats had died due to exposure to toxic gas. With that, Kristian comes to the conclusion that a major earthquake, up to a 8.5 on the Richter Scale, would hit Oslo that day, and that the collapse that killed his colleague may have been a precursor movement to that. Kristian rushes out of the apartment with Marit and Julia in tow, and drive very quickly to the Radisson Blu skyscraper hotel, to find Idun and get her out of the building. On the way, Kristian calls Sondre, who is in one of his classes and ignores Kristian's calls and text, telling Sondre to leave the building now. After failing to convince Sondre to leave, Kristian calls in a fake bomb threat to the police, forcing the alarms to go off at the school for a short while. Sondre gets up to leave, only to have his girlfriend convince him to stay after the alarms turn off. Arriving at the hotel, Kristian finds Idun on the 34th floor, convinces her to go downstairs with him and then pulls a fire alarm to get everyone else to evacuate. Julia wanders into the building to find her father, with Marit in pursuit. Getting on an elevator with Idun, Kristian sees Julia on the other end of the room. Despite attempting to call out to her, the doors close and the elevator begins to auto-descend. Suddenly, the power goes out. Marit finds Julia on the balcony, looking in the distance. The reflection in the glass door behind Marit reveals a trail of smoke and explosions, caused by an approaching earthquake, heading straight for the hotel. Marit grabs Julia and runs inside as the first shockwave from the quake hits, knocking Marit unconscious. The ceiling of Sondre's lecture hall collapses, killing the professor and several students, with Sondre and his girlfriend remaining unhurt, due to ducking under the tables in front of them. Kristian and Idun's elevator rapidly drops down the shaft, knocking both Kristian and Idun unconscious. Sometime later, Marit wakes, finding Julia tending to an injured hotel worker. Next to the Radisson Blu, part of the Posthuset building shifts and then collapses directly into the right side of the Radisson Blu, leaving the 34th floor hanging precariously over the wreckage, everything below destroyed. Following an aftershock, the building begins to tilt. Marit unintentionally lets go of the injured hotel worker's hand, and she slides down the floor and out of the window to her death. Marit loses her grip, and nearly suffers the same fate, but grabs on to the edge of the mounted bar, as Julia hangs on to a railing. Julia loses her grip on the railing and slips, almost getting hit by a piano sliding from behind her. Marit successfully grabs Julia, who narrowly misses being hit by the piano, and also saving Julia from the same fate as the hotel worker. After waking up, Idun and Kristian make their way out of the stuck elevator and climb maintenance ladders to get to the top floor of the elevator shaft. Debris knocked loose by aftershocks fall down the shaft and mutilates Idun's leg, forcing Kristian to carry her. They arrive at an open elevator door near the 30th story and attempt to use a severed elevator cord to swing across to the opening. Kristian succeeds, but Idun falls to her death after the power goes out and the brakes on the elevator fail. A devastated Kristian heads to the place where he last saw Julia and finds her and Marit huddling behind the mounted bar. As they are attempting to leave, a final aftershock causes Julia to lose her grip, and she slides down the floor towards the broken window. Kristian jumps after her, and pushes her out of the way, knocking himself unconscious in the process. When he comes to, he finds Julia precariously balancing on a cracking window. Carefully approaching Julia, he manages to grab her before the window breaks, and with Marit's help, pulls her up. Together, they leave the hotel. Sometime later, Marit enters her father's office to find it mostly destroyed, except for a picture of her as a child with her father. A reunited Kristian, Julia, and Sondre arrive at their old home in Geiranger by ferry. The movie ends with the news that there are now signs that indicate that we can expect major future earthquakes in Norway. 

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The story takes place during the reign of Russian Emperor Alexander II. The maid of honor of princely palace tells prince a fairy tale that occurs in the XIII century and tells about the mystical murder of prince in the forest. The participants in the story, witnesses of this crime, tell different versions of the incident, which are different from what actually happened. 

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‘Gideon’s Wrath’ sees Gideon wrestling with several major crimes, as well as debating whom to recommend to the Commissioner as his new Deputy Commander; Hobbs or Lemaitre? Attacks are being mounted with explosives on places of worship throughout London. The Dean of St Ludd's approaches Gideon with his suspicions and a plan of action is formulated. As many police as can be spared are posted to guard the churches and synagogues; community volunteers are also placed on guard, much like the firewatchers during World War 2. The attacks stop temporarily, but then resume. Two perpetrators are arrested, but they will say nothing. Gideon eventually discovers that they belong to the ‘Simple Brethren’, a secretive group led and financed by lunatic millionaire Hector Marriott, who sees it as his mission to destroy what he considers idolatry. The group's offices are raided and the members and their intended targets identified. Whilst Gideon visits Paris to attend an Interpol meeting on gold smuggling, Marriott launches a final lone bombing of St Paul's Cathedral. He is apprehended, but escapes and commits suicide. Gideon also oversees an investigation in which several young girls have been murdered. They are suspected of having been drugged after posing for pornographic photos. Toni Botelli, the main perpetrator, is eventually arrested after a tense stand-off at his premises. A drug smuggling operation is also uncovered. 

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Vetri (Gautham Karthik) lives in a joint family with six sisters and their husbands. He has been brought up by his eldest sister Pechi (Vinodhini Vaidyanathan), and their relationship is more like a mother and son. Vetri has an anger problem and gets into unnecessary fights, but everybody in the family loves him as he is the first advocate in their family. However, soon he takes the law in his hands when he murders a sexual offender - his friend who happens to be the son of Madurai's dreaded gangster, Kodumpavi Ganesan (FEFSI Vijayan). Ganesan swears revenge and promises to kill Vetri just like he murdered his son in the streets of Madurai in broad daylight. However, Ganesan instead kills Pechi and her husband (Bose Venkat). As revenge, Vetri kills Ganesan and places his severed head inside the fridge at home, a deed that he was supposed to have done before the funeral of the deceased relatives. 

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Bijoyinee is the tale of a wealthy maid servant's daughter, Keka and her struggles to become a great dancer. Her main problem is that a well-known classical dancer, Subarna, whose house her mother works at, detests her and prevents her working in the dance industry because of her lower class as a maid servant's daughter. 

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The series explores the lives of two opposite persons who belong to two different worlds but fall in love with each other. Ayeza has been sent to Tabish's house to get revenge from the family. However, fate has other plans for them which creates havoc in their lives. 

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This a story about broken family of Sara and Bilal. They Have two children . They wanted Divorce. Sara is a very selfish woman with an even more selfish mother, who breaks up her marriage, gives up on her loving husband and two kids on the insistent of her greedy mother. 

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Nemo travels with a circus parade to Slumberland to meet King Morpheus. He is accompanied by Flip to fight through the now-dangerous enemy-infested Slumberland to find the king. At the heart of the kingdom, Flip tempts Nemo to open the sealed door, unleashing the Nightmare King, who kidnaps Morpheus along with his daughter Princess Camille. Nemo and Flip battle through the lands of Nightmares to rescue the kidnapped monarches. They infiltrate the Nightmare King's castle, before fighting the evil king himself. After the Nightmare King is destroyed, peace is restored to Slumberland. 

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Kamini is a media anchor with high spontaneity, courage and sense of her own feminist ideology. The character has no understanding of the dynamics between an ideology and freedom. She has been raised by a conservative mother after her father died when she was a child. Kamini and her mother are often at loggerheads about Kamini's attitude. She, her friend Jennifer and a few friends work as a team at the #tag channel, where they have been doing prank videos on unsuspecting people with serious topics, such as murder attempt and medical emergency, for 3 years. On her birthday, Kamini's mother challenges her to change into a conservative newsreader for at least once, so that she can be happy. Kamini's firm is to vacate their building by the end of the day to their own building far away. As a sentiment, the last show to be telecasted from the old building is a live news feed, to be done by Jennifer. While Kamini visits Jennifer getting ready, their views about news reading bring a challenge to Kamini similar to what her mom said earlier. Suddenly Jennifer goes missing 10 minutes before the live feed and with no way out, Kamini serves as her replacement newsreader. Despite everyone's expectation, Kamini does the job well, and Jennifer comes out of the upper floor toilet whose door got stuck. The firm vacates the building and the empty building is left without being locked for the weekend. Kamini's gang celebrates her birthday party with alcohol and a fried rice mixed with magic mushrooms in their empty office building. While on a call with her mom, Kamini unwittingly reveals that she was the one who locked Jennifer so that she could prove her point. Jennifer fights with Kamini and challenges her to her own statement of reading news naked. Kamini begins to strip, and suddenly everyone gets high on the magic mushrooms. Kamini wakes up the next morning in the empty office with no dress and no telephone. Nothing viable is available for Kamini to dress herself and she spends the day naked, trying to get help in insensible ways. She gets hold of her phone, but it has another SIM card which is not having balance to make outgoing. She calls food order on a toll-free number and waits. Kamini arms herself with an iron peg to attack the expected delivery guy and obtain his clothes, but gets surprised to see a delivery girl, who faints and loses consciousness due to blood loss. Then she tries to remove her clothes but the delivery girl wakes up and restrains and so Kamini hits her on the head and scampers off hearing the sounds of two local area guys who enter the building and come to Kamini's floor. The guys find the delivery girl and call the police assuming she is dead. Kamini manages to hide from the police, but the police save the girl who had fainted. Kamini is left alone in the building locked after the police go away. She gets a call from one of her friends who reveals that they were arrested by the police the previous night since they were high. But before she can say anything her phone dies. Meanwhile, Kamini's mother files a complaint about her missing daughter in the same police station where her friends are jailed. Kamini breaks the glass window of the entrance and tries to unlock the door with sustaining injuries in her arms due to the broken glass pieces. She ventures out in the deep night, to a garbage bin outside but she is chased by dogs before she could find anything good to cover herself. She runs back to the abandoned building still being chased by group of dogs. She falls down and again injures herself with the broken glass pieces and locks herself in the toilet feeling hopeless and crying. She convinces herself about her fearless nature and promises her mom that she would come out of the office building with her dignity retained. Finally she finds a tissue roll in the toilet which she uses to cover her private parts. She comes out of the building but finds herself stranded in the rain. She finds a police tape and covers herself and begs for a passerby to help her provide the raincoat which the person was wearing.But the passerby gave her instead a bag which contained Kamini's original clothes, leaving her puzzled. She wore the clothes and chased her before which the person get startled by the police van and comes inside the gate of the office. It is the same delivery girl who was attacked earlier and she reveals that she is the reason for Kamini's naked misery. She starts fighting with her and starts pulling the girl's clothes as for revenge.Then there comes a flashback. The delivery girl, Nangeli, an innocent soul (Ananya Ramaprasad) was a Civil Services aspirant from a tribal village in Manjolai Hills and had passed the UPSC Preliminary examination 2 years ago. She was sent to Chennai by her Family for the UPSC Mains Examination. While she was waiting for an Auto, Kamini's gang played a medical-oriented prank on her, causing her to miss out her Civil Service Mains examination and wasting her Preliminary exam marks forever. Also, when the girl's mother came to Chennai for the next year examination, she fainted and no one came to help, thinking it as a prank. Nangeli is forced to work as a delivery girl while preparing for the exam again, while she saw Kamini one day after delivering food to her office. She sees Kamini enjoying her life. Nangeli was hurt badly so she played out her revenge. She followed Kamini and saw her and her friends having fun in the empty office building. She hears Kamini tell her friends that she can stay naked in the building for a day. She sees Kamini walking to the restroom and also hears her friends going out to get more drinks. She finds Kamini passed out in the restroom and her friend Jennifer passed out as well. Nangeli gets Jennifer's mobile and calls her dad. She asks him to pick her up as she is drunk and passed out. After Jennifer is taken away, Nangeli cleans the entire office off everything. She then removes Kamini's bra and leggings and hides in an air vent. Throughout the entire time Kamini was awake in the building, Nangeli was keeping a close watch on her. She heard Kamini order food and runs out and pays the delivery boy and pretends to be the delivery person instead. Before this, she also sees a blood donation bus and donates blood.On entering the office she pranks kamini by fainting to see whether kamini offers help but instead get hit by kamini on her head.That's when the remainder of the story happens. Then Nangeli reveals how social media has created a dangerous world where a selfie or even pranks are more important nowadays. Kamini asks if it's her show's fault that everyone in the world is crazy about social media. Nangeli reveals that we all have freedom but it shouldn't be misused or taken advantage of and Kamini realises her mistake. Nangeli reveals she didn't want to take revenge but just wanted her to know what Kamini had done to her. She explains how irrespective of Kamini hurting her, she ran away from the hospital and the cops outside to know if she was safe.She also thought kamini being a free-spirited female would walk out of the office naked as a shameless human.But instead she proved she isn't one.Nangeli is also upset seeing how Kamini is hurt because stepping on glass and running from the dogs. She apologized to Kamini and the two go their separate ways. Kamini changes from public pranks to exposing scandals of politicians in office with her whole group. She is shown to be the cause for the dismissal and arrest of a songwriter who was a member of parliament. Nangeli is still preparing for her exams and working as a delivery person also. 

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The antimatter wave destroys countless parallel universes. On Earth-38, Brainiac 5 detects the wave approaching Argo City, prompting Kara Danvers to warn her mother Alura Zor-El, her cousin Clark Kent, and his wife Lois Lane. Clark and Lois send their son, Jonathan, off in an escape pod just before the wave hits. Harbinger brings Barry, Kate Kane, Sara Lance, and Ray Palmer to Earth-38 and rescues the Kents from Argo. As Harbinger briefs the heroes on the situation, the Monitor raises a tower to impede the wave while the DEO and Lena Luthor evacuate Earth-38's inhabitants. Brainy finds Jonathan's pod on Earth-16, so he, Lois, and Sara leave to retrieve him while the others fight the Anti-Monitor's forces. Preparing to die, Oliver passes the Green Arrow mantle to Mia. When he learns that Barry is fated to die, however, he argues with the Monitor about their deal. The heroes fight a demonic army until the Monitor breaches them off- world. Refusing to leave, Oliver nullifies the Monitor and stays behind to protect the exodus. Lois' team returns to Earth-1 with Jonathan just as the Monitor brings a dying Oliver to say goodbye. Nash, now a "Pariah" for releasing the Anti-Monitor, announces that all is lost. Harbinger recruits Earth-74's Mick Rory so the heroes can use his Waverider. Following Oliver's death, the Monitor consults the Book of Destiny and learns about four of seven Paragons: Hope (Kara); Destiny (Sara); Truth (a Superman who has suffered "more than any mortal man"); and Courage (the "Bat of the Future"). Clark, Lois, and Iris locate the second Superman on Earth-96, where Lex uses the Book of Destiny to brainwash that Earth's Clark until Lois knocks Lex out. Kara and Kate travel to Earth-99, but fail to recruit its Batman after discovering he murdered his world's Superman while Sara, Barry, Mia, and John Constantine take Oliver to a Lazarus Pit on Earth-18 in an attempt to resurrect him, only to learn his soul is missing. On the Waverider, the Monitor has Ray build a "Paragon Detector", which identifies Kate as the Paragon of Courage. Harbinger is secretly contacted by the Anti-Monitor. The Paragon detector identifies Barry as the Paragon of Love, J'onn J'onzz as the Paragon of Honor, and Ivy Town scientist Ryan Choi as the Paragon of Humanity; Iris, Ray, and Ralph Dibny leave to recruit Choi. After the Monitor restores Cisco Ramon's powers, he, Barry, and Caitlin Snow meet Pariah in the Anti-Monitor's chamber and find an anti-matter cannon powered by Earth-90's Flash. When Cisco frees Barry-90, the cannon goes critical, so Pariah recruits Jefferson from his recently destroyed Earth to contain its energy. Barry-1 volunteers to destroy it, but Barry-90 stops him, saying that the Monitor did not specify which Flash would die, and sacrifices himself in his place. Meanwhile, Constantine, Mia, and Diggle visit Lucifer on Earth-666 for help entering purgatory and retrieving Oliver's soul. Before they can leave, a Spectre named Jim Corrigan appears and beckons Oliver to come with him, forcing Constantine's team to return to the Waverider without him. Suddenly, the Anti-Monitor sends a brainwashed Harbinger to kill the Monitor so he can absorb his power and finish destroying the multiverse. Before he is killed, Pariah sends the Paragons to the Vanishing Point, where they witness Lex replace Superman-96 with himself using a Book of Destiny page. On the planet Maltus 10,000 years earlier, Mar Novu tries to see the birth of the universe, only to end up in the antimatter universe and reveal the multiverse's existence to the Anti-Monitor. Following the multiverse's destruction, the Paragons struggle to survive at the Vanishing Point. Once Corrigan teaches him to how use the Spectre's power, Oliver goes to the Vanishing Point to rescue the Paragons and strengthen Barry. Barry drops off Kara, Choi, and Lex on Maltus, but temporarily loses everyone else in the Speed Force after an encounter with the Anti-Monitor. Kara and Choi convince Novu not to implement his plans before Barry takes them and the other Paragons to the dawn of time. There, they learn that the Anti- Monitor will always learn about the multiverse's existence because they only stopped one version of Novu. The Paragons battle the Anti-Monitor and his shadow demons until Oliver uses the Spectre's power to restore the multiverse while the Paragons provide help via Lex's page. Despite succeeding, Oliver dies once more, with Barry and Sara at his side. In the recreated universe, the Paragons discover only they remember the crisis and that Earth-1, Earth-38, and Jefferson's Earth were merged into Earth-Prime. J'onn uses his psionic powers to restore their allies' memories while Sara tries to find Oliver. When the Paragons are attacked by demons, a restored Nash discovers that the Anti-Monitor is still alive and plans to resume destroying the multiverse. Nash, Ray, Barry, and Choi develop a bomb to shrink the Anti- Monitor and send him to the microverse. After defeating him, Barry, Kara, Sara, Kate, Clark, J'onn, and Jefferson hold a memorial service for Oliver and agree to protect their new world in his memory. 

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The central character of this book is Brigid Fitzgerald, a physician working with the fictional organization Kind Hands (similar to Doctors without Borders). Brigid is in south Sudan in very desperate and dangerous conditions. Brigid is shot and almost killed and while she is at death's door God talks to her. Throughout this novel God talks to Brigid a number of times. Her life is a tragic one. Things start to go well and Brigid marries and has a child. She suddenly loses her husband and child at once and goes back to Sudan, nearly losing her life again. She finally returns to her native Massachusetts and with a new husband founds a new religious movement. 

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In a high-rise office building on the evening before Valentine's Day, Guy (Matt Lauria) and Jennifer (Natalie Martinez) have been separately working late. Apparently the last people to leave, they enter the same elevator on different floors and make small talk. On the way down, the thunderstorm strikes the office building and the elevator abruptly stops. With no cell phone signal possible, they worry they'll be stuck in the elevator together until Tuesday morning, as Monday is President's Day. At first, the two hit it off. Guy shares his water and a bottle of wine (a gift from a client) while Jennifer shares some Hershey's Kisses she grabbed before leaving her office. Killing time, they sketch pictures of each other. Jennifer uses her cell phone to record videos of them relating past sexual escapades. Growing more intimate, they kiss and then have sex in the elevator. Afterwards, Jennifer insists the encounter was merely casual, and tells him "we're not a thing." Frustrated by what he sees as rejection, Guy admits that his story is a lie. His name isn't Guy and he's not an office worker. Instead, he works as one of the building's security guards and has essentially been stalking her. Furthermore, he stopped the elevator with his key when she wasn't looking. He then produces the elevator key and restarts the elevator. Jennifer is furious; angrily telling him he'll rot in jail. "Guy" isn't having it though, so he stops the elevator. They get into a physical altercation, wherein the key is accidentally broken; truly trapping them inside. "Guy" eventually breaks through the elevator's ceiling tiles. Jennifer persuades him into letting her climb out, promising she won't call the police. Once on top of the cabin, however, she flips him off before climbing up a ladder. He pulls himself out to follow and, after a chase, pulls her down just as she's prying open the elevator doors on a higher floor before falling back into the elevator cabin. Jennifer is the first to recover and ties "Guy" up. Threatening to maim him with a cigar cutter, she records his video confession on her cell phone. This time, "Guy" reveals the truth: his name is John Deakins and he used to be a successful white collar worker until he crashed his car, killing a female passenger. After serving six months in jail, he couldn't get a promising job. He plotted the elevator incident to get a taste of his former life. Very early Monday morning, another security guard, Eddie (Arnie Pantoja), arrives to take his girlfriend up to the high-rise's roof. He notices the elevator's stuck and works to free the pair. John, who has untied his hands and knocked out Jennifer, lures Eddie halfway into the elevator before starting it and slicing the man in half. After cleaning up, John deletes files from the security desk computer and kills Eddie's lady friend. He carries an unconscious Jennifer to the parking garage, stuffs her into his car trunk, and drives away. When John stops the car and opens its trunk, Jennifer appears to be dead. However, she suddenly attacks, knocking him down. She gets into his car and begins to drive away, before reversing and crashing into a dumpster into which John has dived. John is barely alive inside the dumpster. Jennifer starts to walk away, puffing on a cigar. She turns and tosses the lit cigar into the dumpster, and it bursts into flames, killing John. 

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Peter Rake (Jimmi Simpson) is a budding celebrity chef of considerable success. He has an 11-year-old daughter Riley (Kylie Rogers) from a failed marriage, plus some unspecified legal troubles. While he hasn't been able to bond with Riley, he has named his restaurant and cutlery line after her while stating that he "needs her." The weekend of his ex-wife's remarriage, he drives to his family estate where he'll stay with a lone servant, the elderly Agnes (Nancy Linehan Charles). On the trip, he runs into an old high school classmate named Lonnie (Michael Weston), who operates a bait shop, and also meets with his estranged sister Gwen (Amanda Walsh) who is a district attorney working on an important case and whom Lonnie has a crush on. As the siblings catch up, it is mentioned that Peter wasn't invited to his father's funeral. One evening, a woman from across the canyon, Kara (Julianna Guill), stops by to say the power went out in the middle of their bachelorette party and asks to borrow some candles. Peter obliges, though Kara seems at first reluctant to follow him into his house. While jogging near his old treehouse the next day, Peter runs into Kara with her friends, including the bride-to-be, Marie (Shaunette Renée Wilson). Peter offers to cook dinner for them. Arriving for Peter's dinner are Kara, Marie, Elena (Stephanie Beatriz), Morgan (Sophia Del Pizzo), and Lilith (Mary McCormack). For much of the evening, Peter is charming, but he makes occasional cringe-worthy and sexist comments, especially after downing several glasses of wine. For example, he makes joking references to Agnes' age and to Elena's (Puerto Rican) and Morgan's (English) ancestry. Before retiring for bed, he makes a crack about "spooning" with the women. He also notices during the dinner that all of the women have the same Celtic symbol tattooed on their wrists, which they tell him is symbolic for sisterhood. When Peter awakes later that night, strange things transpire. He is startled to see Morgan asleep next to him. Hearing old-timey music downstairs, he investigates and finds a peacock in his house. Several figures in odd costume invade the home, who are soon revealed to be Kara and her friends. Peter is partially paralyzed and chained to a bed by the women. They threaten him in various ways, including Morgan pointing a bow and arrow aimed at his crotch and the others dressing him up in women’s clothing and makeup. When a defiant Peter calls them "fucking bitches," they reply "we're fucking witches," and explain that they are punishing him for his past sins against women. These include his role in the suicide of Kara's sister Rebecca (Maggie Lawson) who Peter once dated before she died using heroin and Peter's cutlery, the sexual harassment of Lilith's daughter who nobody believed, and the firing of Elena's mother who was given unequal wages. Peter escapes but is re-captured when he passes out after trying to call 911 and Lonnie. Lonnie comes over and is suspicious of Kara's claims that they are all just having a nice dinner. Agnes shows up and tells Lonnie to go home, which he reluctantly does as it is revealed that he is Agnes' son from an affair that Peter's dad had with her. Kara is surprised by this, but Agnes tells her to finish what she started. Peter is then released to be chased by the witches. He runs to the treehouse, the inside of which is decorated with photos and articles about his crimes. When his sister Gwen arrives in her car in an apparent rescue attempt, Peter discovers that she is actually working with the witches, though Gwen implies that she didn’t know they’d take it that far. However, Gwen reminds Peter that he once raped her best friend Rebecca in the treehouse, revealing the reason for a bloody chess table and mattress next to the articles he saw in there earlier. He tries to excuse his action by saying he was a drunk teenager at the time. Meanwhile, the witches arrive and Gwen’s car window explodes as the women surround the car, dragging out Gwen and Peter separately. Peter is tied up again with his hands apparently nailed down. When Peter awakes the next morning, everything seems normal as he is in the clothes he originally slept in and his hands aren't injured. Initially believing yesterday's events were a nightmare, he receives a phone call from Kara warning him that he'll suffer if he ever hurts another woman again, followed by the burners suddenly erupting in flames. Bedraggled, Peter leaves the estate after seeing that the painting of Rebecca has been replaced with a portrait of an elk he previously saw on the hill. He then goes to his ex- wife's house to see Riley. Kneeling before Riley, he tells her she is "precious" and asks him to never let him or any man take her for granted. He then apologizes to his ex-wife for his past behavior. Before Peter leaves, an Atlas Parcel Service delivery woman (Cass Bugge) he has never met greets him while delivering for the wedding and flashes the same Celtic tattoo that the bachelorette party women had while claiming that she is watching him. Peter considers heeding Kara's threat. Meanwhile, Kara, Gwen, Marie, Elena, Morgan, and Lilith reconvene at the house as they celebrate their victory. It turns out, however, that the women are not witches. The witchcraft was ordinary practical trickery and, with the help of Agnes, they drugged Peter's food to cause partial paralysis and hallucinations as well as using explosive charges and fake stakes to put on his hands. Gwen was involved in the ploy as well, as she intended to teach her brother a lesson. 

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1989, Samarsk. A local cardiac surgeon Pavel Fedotov dies from a first marriage, Marina, during childbirth. Pavel's the current wife Victoria decided to get rid of Marina’s newborn daughter, who, in the event of Paul’s death, would become his full heir. Victoria asks her chauffeur Gennady to give the child to circus artist Raisa. Raisa takes the child and leaves with a circus. Our days. A circus troupe comes to the provincial town on tour. Two twin brothers, Yaroslav and Svyatoslav, take care of the young beautiful gymnast Asya. Yaroslav falls in love with her at first sight, and the girl reciprocates. No wonder, the intelligent and romantic Yarik is the man of her dreams! But suddenly he is forced to go on business to England. Eighteen years ago, Asya was born in this town. She is the granddaughter of their stepfather, the famous cardiologist Pavel Fedotov. Mother Asi died in childbirth, and Fedotov believed that the same fate befell the child. In fact, through the efforts of his second wife, Viktoria, the newborn girl was given to circus artist Raisa, who raised her.The Circus Princess at the KinoPoisk 

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As the nearly dead physician Dr. George Winson grows closer to death, his wife Ann Winson fails to get help from Dr. Roger Vance or the pastor Fred Stevens and prays to any source that she thinks could help. This leads to the strange woman Lilyan Gregg to arrive and start caring for Macready who miraculously recovers, but becomes a cold and cruel person. Gregg's power over Winson estranges him from Winson. Gregg begins to use to Winson for her needs, including having him murder Stevens. Gregg has Winson stalk him through the streets which leads to Macready fleeing once Stevens turns at him with a cross. Meeting with Vance, he finds that Winson has no pulse and after an operation, he accidentally cuts Winson finding he has no blood. Vance then confronts Winson but is later run down by Gregg. In critical condition, Dr. Roger Vance calls Winson to his side as Gregg tells Winson to let Vance die. Later, Stevens then approached Winson to tell him to break the hold Gregg has on him. Winson returns to church to pray for him. Winson approaches Gregg and realizes the woman's control on him. This leads to Gregg deciding to murder Winson and make it look like a suicide. Gregg shoots Macready who continues to advance towards her, finally pushing her through a window to her death. Winson's entire experience turns out to be a dream, as Winson awakens to Winson praying for his recovery. 

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Maksim Pokrovskiy is an experienced police officer from Moscow Police, who was sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter. 

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The film tells of a German plot to start the First World War, with the Kaiser's mistress asking her servant to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the subsequent cover-up that ensues. 

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In a world inhabited by mythical creatures, magic was commonplace several millennia ago, though difficult to master. After technological advances over the centuries, magic became obsolete and was largely discarded. In the modern day, two elf brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot, live in the city of New Mushroomton. Ian, the younger of the two, is a high-school student lacking self-confidence, and Barley is an enthusiastic, impulsive history and RPG fan. Their father Wilden died of a severe illness shortly before Ian was born, and their mother Laurel has a new boyfriend, centaur police officer Colt Bronco, whom Ian and Barley dislike. On Ian's sixteenth birthday, Laurel gives her sons a gift from Wilden: a magical staff, a rare Phoenix gem, and a letter describing a "visitation spell" that can resurrect their father for a single day. Ian accidentally succeeds in casting the spell, but only the lower half of Wilden's body is reformed before the gem disintegrates. The brothers embark on a quest to acquire another gem and complete the spell, taking Barley's beloved van "Guinevere". Finding the boys gone, Laurel leaves to look for them. Ian and Barley visit the Manticore's Tavern, named for a monster possessing a map to the gem. The tavern has become a family restaurant managed by the Manticore ("Corey" for short). While arguing with Ian over the map, Corey realizes how boring her life has become and drives the customers away in a fit of insanity, accidentally setting fire to the restaurant and the map. The brothers' only clue to the gem is a children's menu suggesting "Raven's Point", a nearby mountain. Laurel later arrives at the scene and befriends Corey, who agrees to help her. Corey warns Laurel that the brothers' journey may awaken a curse that can only be defeated by her sword, which she and Laurel steal from a pawn shop. Traveling to the mountains, Ian and Barley narrowly escape the police and a motorcycle gang of pixies, relying on Ian's newly awakened spell-casting abilities and Barley's RPG instincts. "Raven's Point" leads them on a trail indicated by a series of raven statues, but Colt follows them, calling in reinforcements. After coming to a dead end, Barley sacrifices Guinevere to cause a landslide, blocking their pursuers. Following the statues, the brothers descend through a cave and avoid a series of traps and deadly creatures, during which Barley reveals to Ian that he was unable to emotionally bring himself to say goodbye to Wilden when he was dying in the hospital. The final obstacle sends them back to the surface, where they find themselves in front of Ian's high school. Infuriated at Barley's advice, Ian lashes out at him for leading them on a wild goose chase and walks away with Wilden. Rereading his list of things he always wished to do with Wilden, Ian realizes that Barley has been a father figure throughout his entire life, and returns to make amends. Barley discovers the needed gem inside a historic fountain across the street from high school and retrieves it, unwittingly triggering the curse Corey spoke of, which creates a dragon-shaped golem out of pieces of the school and other nearby objects, bent on claiming the gem. Ian's staff is knocked into the ocean during a battle with the golem, but he reforms it from a splinter embedded in his hand and continues the fight. Corey flies in carrying Laurel, who plunges the magic sword into the golem's heart, buying Ian time to cast the visitation spell and fully reform Wilden's body. Ian sends Barley ahead to finally give his proper goodbye to Wilden, and holds off the golem long enough for Laurel to destroy it. After Wilden dissipates, Barley tells Ian that their father is proud of him, and the brothers share a hug. Some time later, Ian's confidence and spell-casting have improved and he surprises Barley by painting his new van, christened "Guinevere The Second". Corey reopens her tavern in its original spirit, drawing in customers with tales of past adventures. She and Laurel become friends, and Ian and Barley develop a better relationship with Colt. As the world begins to rediscover the magical arts of the past, the brothers set off on a new quest. 

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Saji, Bonny, Bobby and Franky are four brothers living in a small, dilapidated house in the village of Kumbalangi. Saji's father had married Bonny's mother, who then gave birth to Bobby and Franky. When their father dies, the mother abandons the boys to join a religious mission, leaving Saji to be the man of the house. Saji has anger management issues, and often gets into fights with Bobby, an unemployed youngster. Franky is ashamed of Saji and Bobby but gets along well with Bonny, who is mute. Bobby starts dating Baby, a girl who lives nearby. He eventually proposes to her, but she asks him to talk to her family first. Bobby asks Saji to accompany him, and together they go to meet Shammi, Baby's brother-in-law. Shammi rejects the proposal and ridicules the poor reputation that Bobby's family has among the villagers. Saji tries to console Bobby and asks him to get a job, which he does. One day, a fight breaks out between Saji and Franky. Bonny, who is very protective of Franky, hits Saji. Ashamed, Saji leaves the house and takes to drinking with his friend Vijay. In his drunken stupor, Saji tries to commit suicide. Vijay saves him but loses his own life in the process. Stricken with remorse, Saji goes to Vijay's house to apologise to his wife, Sathi, where he finds her in labour. He takes her to the hospital, where she gives birth to a baby girl. Saji takes Sathi and her daughter to his house. Meanwhile, Bonny has brought home an American tourist, Nylah, who has been kicked out of her hotel for inviting Bonny there. Franky is pleased to have the two women in the house, as it gives them some semblance of being a regular family. Some time later, Saji approaches Shammi again and asks him to reconsider the proposal, which Shammi refuses. Baby makes up her mind to elope with Bobby. However, Shammi finds out about Baby's plans, and turns abusive and violent. He assaults Baby, her sister and their mother, holding them captive in their own home. When Baby fails to return his calls, Bobby get anxious and decides to check up on her. Bobby's brothers volunteer to help, and the four arrive at Baby's house. Together, they manage to trap Shammi with a fishing net and set the women free. Bobby and Baby are finally reunited and get married. 

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A white creature named Kyubey has the power to grant girls any single wish. In exchange for that wish, however, they must become magical girls and fight against creatures known as Witches. A rumor soon begins to spread among magical girls that they can be saved from their duty by going to Kamihama City. Iroha Tamaki, a girl who had originally forgotten the wish she had made to become a magical girl, one day encounters a smaller Kyubey and remembers that she made a wish to cure her younger sister Ui of her illness. Realising that Ui has become missing somehow, Iroha travels to Kamihama City in order to find answers, encountering many other magical girls along the way. 

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180px Gulabsinh attends a festival in Delhi, where he saves the dancer Rama from the clutches of a wicked nobleman with his secret supernatural power. He advises Rama to marry Lalaji, a painter who loves Rama but is reluctant to marry a dancer. Rama loves Gulabsinh, who inspires awe in her. Lalaji is attracted to Gulabsinh for his supernatural powers. Gulabsinh directs him to Matsyendra, and marries Rama at the cost of his immortality to save her. Matsyendra laughs at Gulabsinh and advises him to return to the seclusion of spiritual practice; Gulabsinh does not return, however, and allows his supernatural powers to disappear. The Great Spirit explains to Gulabsinh the unequal status of the love between him and Rama, whom Gulabsinh unsuccessfully tries to uplift with his spiritual power. When he decides to unite his and Rama's souls in a third (their child), the heavenly being admonishes him: "Did you become superhuman only to become human?" Gulabsinh replies, "Ah! Humanity is so sweet!" 

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The novel is set in 2018 and depicts the relationship between Nat (né Anatoly), a 47-year-old member of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and a young man he plays badminton with weekly. In an extract from the novel published prior to publication, The Guardian describes how "Nat admits to serious reservations about the idea of England "as the mother of all democracies", describing the country as in freefall, with "a minority Tory cabinet of 10th-raters... Labour no better. The sheer bloody lunacy of Brexit". Boris Johnson is described in the book as a "pig-ignorant foreign secretary". 

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In the English countryside of the early 20th century, the prosperous, middle class farmer's son, Charlie MacFell, must deal with a cruel and tyrannical father and later with a romantic tangle and a problematic marriage. He must keep, as well, a dark secret which must stay hidden at all costs. Later, he is taken into the British Army fighting on the Western Front of the First World War, where the shadows of his past pursue him and lead to a climax. 

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Moses Al Shabazz is the impoverished leader of a small religious commune, the Star of Six, in Miami. The commune has three other members: Moses's wife Venus, and followers X and Afrika. It worships deities including Allah, "Black Santa", and General Toussaint Louverture. Moses preaches a black uprising against the white oppressors, but opposes the use of firearms. He has been prescribed anti- psychotic medication, but does not take it, as it "makes him drowsy". Agent Kendra Glack of the FBI comes across one of Moses's live-streamed sermons, and decides that he will make an ideal dupe on whom to pin revolutionary activities. When Moses is served an eviction notice by his landlord, Kendra sends Reza, a pedophilic shopkeeper now working undercover for the FBI, to claim that his relative, a sheikh affiliated with Al-Qaeda, would be willing to supply money and firearms to Moses. Reza sets up a meeting between Moses and the supposed sheikh (in fact another FBI informant, Nura), but Moses initially asks only for farm equipment and a horse. However, having appreciated how much money the guns represent, he subsequently agrees to accept 50 Kalashnikov rifles. Venus is horrified at these dealings, and leaves the commune with their daughter, even though Moses has promised not to use the guns. Moses witnesses lightning strike and destroy a crane, which he interprets as a sign from God. On the day of the exchange, the FBI prepare to arrest him for the illegal gun deal, but he rides to the FBI headquarters on his horse and attempts to turn in the dealers for a reward. He meets with Kendra before leaving: she shows sympathy for his situation, but says she can't help him. When Moses returns to his commune, he finds his followers have been evicted. His landlord agrees to let him return in exchange for procuring weapons-grade uranium from the sheikh; and the FBI sees this as an opportunity to have him arrested for attempting to use a nuclear device. Moses makes a deal to sell the uranium to a group of neo-Nazis for $100,000, but instead of procuring the real uranium has his followers fill the canisters with urine and beans. The neo-Nazis are actually undercover police officers, and in having Moses contact them, the FBI cross over into police territory, leading the Miami police to take over the case and attempt to arrest Moses, X, Afrika, and Moses's landlord at the uranium sale. Kendra is able to persuade the police to stand down and let Moses, X, and Afrika go, while arresting the landlord. Moses believes he is now off the hook; but as he drives his bus back into town to meet his wife and daughter at a donut shop, the police give chase. The Miami police have called a nuclear emergency, forcing Kendra to do likewise in order to retain control of the situation. On their way to the donut shop, Kendra's superior Andy hints that it would all be easier if Moses were shot, prompting Kendra to rethink her position. At the shop, a policeman's gun goes off by mistake, sending everyone running for cover. Reza, who is also present, tries to give Moses a fake rocket launcher in order to give the FBI an excuse to arrest him, but Moses pretends to be an undercover cop and arrests Reza, who Afrika accidentally shoots in the head with a toy crossbow. Kendra enters the shop and asks Moses to stand down, but he attempts to fire the rocket launcher at her and her accompanying officers, allowing the FBI to arrest him and his followers. As he is being led away, Kendra promises Moses that his daughter will be cared for. The end credits state that all FBI personnel involved in the case were promoted, while Moses and his followers were given 20 to 35 years in prison on plea bargains with no trial. Venus was given 15 years for aiding a terrorist organization. 

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Yeon-sin (Shin Dong-mi) is devastated and storms out of the theatre when no one shows up at her play. She calls her boyfriend Woo-yeon (Kim Kang-hyun) and in a fit of anger breaks up with him. She then meets an unorthodox detective (Yoo Jun-sang) with a gift for interpreting dreams. 

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The film begins with Christine "Tin" Lazaro (Liza Soberano), a University of the Philippines Art Studies major and a part-time museum guide, touring high school students in The Philippine National Museum. During one of her tours, she meets Rafael "Raf" Toledo (Enrique Gil), a University of Santo Tomas - Biology student, and an avid fan of The Eraserheads. They first find themselves in a little clash debating the comparison of the museum's famous painting, and Raf's favorite song Spoliarium. First at odds, they soon begin dating and eventually entered a romantic relationship. Raf wants to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor while Tin aspires to be a museum director once they graduate from college, she also dreams to visit The MET and other museums in New York. They started a sweet and adorable relationship but they soon find themselves falling apart when Tin graduates from college. At Tin's first job in a non-government organization, she was accused of allowing her boss, Janice to steal their company's funds. However, she was saved by Gregory "Greg" Fausto (Luis Alandy), a coworker who likes her and believes that she is innocent. Owing to the heated and extremely stressful situation she is currently in, she breaks up with Raf much to her chagrin, when she learns that Raf was not able to graduate again on time, and is still stuck at preparatory medicine school. Raf initially proposes to Tin, to avoid losing her, but Tin refuses the proposal and leaves Raf for good. Five years later, Tin is now in a relationship with Greg. She accompanies her boyfriend at the PICC for an awarding ceremony. There, she also sees Raf who is now a professional doctor, also receiving an award. Raf see Tin from afar and he meets her at the hallway of the complex and invites her to see each other sometime. As the two meet again at the same place where the two started their past relationship, Tin finally tells him that she broke up with him because of her problems at the company she previously worked in. After much realization, Raf receives a call from the hospital, needing his immediate presence to treat patients there. Tin accompanied him and there sees Raf working diligently and passionately at the hospital, taking notice of his personality change and that Raf is currently living his dream of being a doctor. While in there, Raf introduces Tin to Aly (Jasmine Curtis-Smith), a fellow doctor and his current girlfriend. Tin is currently working for Greg's company and is well loved by her subordinates. She performs her job very diligently, but still does not feel the respect and recognition she believed she deserves. She is shut by Greg, by not trusting her professional decisions and somehow forced to let a client criticize her working habits, despite having acceptable reasons. In one of their projects, Tin was sent to New York to present to a client. Tin pleads to Greg that she stay a bit longer to enjoy the city, Greg initially refuses, but allows her to go later on. Unbeknownst to Tin, Raf purchased a ticket flight to New York to join her. Both of them meet once again in New York to fulfill their dreams to visit The MET and other museums. With so much happiness in spending her days in New York with Raf, Tin also mustered the courage and realized that it may not be too late for her to start a career in the field she wholeheartedly desires, she get copies of application forms as souvenirs and as well as reminder that it may not really be too late for her after all. While fulfilling their dreams to see New York, Raf reveals that he broke up with Aly and wanted to marry Tin, she sadly rejects his engagement, stating that she would hurt Greg and his daughter Aisha (Xia Vigor) if she marries him which leads them to argue and to Raf's rejection. Upon returning to the Philippines, Tin discovers Raf reconnected with Aly and reveals that she was pregnant with Raf's child. Tin tries to move on and engages Greg in an enthusiastic conversation about her journey to the New York Museums, but Greg show little to no interest. She later expressed her thoughts about going back to the field she once worked for. They later clash in an argument when Greg forces her to be practical, and reminds her of her past mistakes she made in her previous job, stating that no one will accept her because of it. Greg further states that she is not working well enough. Greg entertains Tin's desire half- halfheartedly and tried to seek assistance from his connections to have Tin easily land a job in a museum, again not trusting Tin's capabilities as an individual professional. Hurt and now enlightened by the fact that Greg will never trust her life decisions, and that he sees her more as an employee more than his girlfriend, breaks up with him and decides to resign her post at the company. Tin then visits at the hospital to see Raf to apologize but fails to convince him, resulting in her visit with her mother Hilda (Sylvia Sanchez) for comfort after being rejected. After talking and getting advice from her former college professor, Alwyn (Nonie Buencamino), Tin finally left her current industry to start a new life working for the art industry. At first, her past mistakes continued to hinder her applications being accepted, but she eventually found a job when a museum head told her that everyone can learn from their mistakes and change for the better. Tin begins a new job at the museum to chase her dream to become a museum director. She later visits Raf at the hospital and finally apologizes to him for being a coward and selfish while he too also apologizes to her for his rash behavior and being confused. He also reveals that his relationship with Aly did not work out as Tin shows her love to him as Raf happily leaves to get back on duty. Back at the National Museum, she watches the award ceremony for the Filipino artists. After the awards ceremony, she is visited again by Raf and finally reconciles their relationship. The film ends with Tin and Raf looking at Juan Luna's Spoliarium while he carries his son from Aly during their visit to the National Museum. 

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A scientist has reoccuring dreams in which he is pursued by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done. He comes to realize that his dreams may have become his reality. 

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Shatadal meets Madhuri after a long time in a railway station and their story is narrated through a series of flashbacks. They actually were a happily-married couple. Satadal was a successful engineer who lived with his wife Madhuri. But day-by-day, their relationship runs into emotional stress due to childlessness. Madhuri cannot bear a child and her husband Shatadal is fond of children. Finally, the couple decided to break up. When they meet in the station, they realize their fondness for each other has not died. 

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The play takes place in Rome during the 16th century, under the reign of Charles V, and centers on the misadventures of the protagonist Luzmán. 

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Shingo Ichinomiya was once a single Japanese salaryman until the day he fell asleep and woke up in a magical fantasy world as a young boy named Wendelin von Benno Baumeister, the eighth son of the noble Baumeister family. Due to his family being poor, Wendelin is unlikely to inherit anything from his father as the family's noble title, wealth and possessions will go to his eldest brother Kurt while the rest of his brothers leave the succession to find income by other means. He looks through his father's library and finds a magic testing orb which glows with rainbow colours when he activates it, proving he has an ability to use magic. Alfred, a former court wizard turned restless undead, senses his magical prowess and decides to teach Wendelin everything he knows about magic. Thanks to Alfred, Wendelin becomes a skilled swordsman and mage, leading him to become a famous adventurer known throughout the kingdom. 

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Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) is a retired banker married to a younger woman Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), an actress, and they share a daughter named Ella. One afternoon when Theo attempts to visit Susanna on set, he is denied entry. While waiting to be granted authorization, he hears Susanna doing a love-making scene and is visibly annoyed. Susanna later apologies to Theo, attributing his obstruction to a misunderstanding, and she tells him she has "put him on the [approved] list". Theo informs Susanna that the set security guard recognised him; Susanna teases Theo, telling him that "they think you're dangerous." Soon after, they book a vacation in Wales, but there is something strange about the house—time passed unusually fast and they both experience bad nightmares. They also discover that neither one of them made the booking, each thinking the other did it. One night, Ella sees the shadow of a man on the wall. The next morning, while Theo writes in his meditation journal, she asks Susanna why people dislike Theo. Susanna reluctantly explains that Theo's first wife drowned in the bathtub and people suspected that he killed her, though he was acquitted at trial. While in town for supplies, the shopkeeper asks if he's met Stetler, who Theo presumes is the home owner. He mysteriously gives Theo a drafting triangle and tells him to measure the right angles, leaving Theo confused. Theo wrestles with feelings of jealousy and mistrust toward Susanna. One evening while she is taking a bath, Theo checks the messages on her phone and laptop. Theo has a dream that night and sees someone has written in his journal: "You should leave. Go now." The following morning as he watches Susanna and Ella playing outside, he texts her. At the same time he sees Susanna look at her phone, he hears a text vibration on the kitchen counter and finds an identical phone with his messages on the screen. Realizing that she has a secret phone, he suspects she has been cheating on him. He confronts Susanna and she admits to an affair with another actor. Theo asks her to leave for the night and she goes into town to stay at an inn. He returns to his journal to see that someone has now written “You should have left. Now it’s too late.” Upon discovering an anomaly in the angle between the wall and floor, they measure the kitchen and find that it is larger inside than outside. Ella and Theo get separated; the two of them appear to be experiencing separate visions in the dream world. Once reunited, Theo calls Susanna, wanting her to come back and take him and Ella away from the house, but her phone is turned off. He then calls the shopkeeper, inquiring whether he knows of any cab services in the area. The shopkeeper replies that there are none and speaks of the house cryptically, saying that the devil collects souls from there. Desperate to escape the house, Theo and Ella decide to go to town by foot, but see a shadowy figure observing them from inside as they walk away from it. After some time, they find they have circled back to the house. Seeing no other option, they stay there for the night, but Theo enters the dream world again and sees his and Susanna's past selves as they first arrived at the house. He then meets Stetler, who has taken Ella captive. He takes Theo's form to taunt him and says he will return Ella on the condition that Theo does "what he must." Ella is returned, relieving Theo. The next day, Susanna returns to the house and Theo gives her Ella. He finally confesses to the true circumstances surrounding the death of his first wife: he didn't directly kill her, but didn't help when she was drowning; he simply watched her die because he had been miserable with her for so long. He accepts that he belongs in the house. Theo's soul is then seen trapped inside the house, revealing he had been the figure watching himself and Ella leave the night before, having tried to warn his past self by writing the messages in his journal. The shopkeeper's voice says that some people don't leave the house, and "the place finds them." 

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Shahid (Reeko Moosa Manik) was sitting on the breakwater when Areesha (Mariyam Shakeela) accidentally knocks him into the sea. He lashes out to her though she kept smiling shyly. Areeka hid Shahid's wallet and invited him to her house if he wants the wallet. Areeka's father, Imad and Shahid's father, Amjad (Roanu Hassan Manik) are childhood best-friends. They decided to marry their kids off despite Shahid's dissent. However, he determined to marry Areeka, solely for the sake of his parents. Before their marriage, Shahid meets Lamha (Mariyam Nisha) whom he fell in love instantly. Shahid disclose to Areeka that he loves another woman whereas Areeka considered it a jest. Shahid took a vacation and spends time in an island where he again meets Lamha. He declares his affection towards her but Lamha wanted nothing more than friendship since she was aware of his planned marriage. Amjad was informed of Shahid's affair who warn him not to do anything that will harm their family's reputation. Shahid kept secretly meeting Lamha, concerning his parents. Lamha attended Shahid and Areesha's wedding party and it was revealed that Lamha and Areesha know each other and they are friends. Shahid continuously keeps avoiding Areesha. One night, Shahid took Lamha to the cinema while Areesha requesting to take her with him. Areesha's friend break the news to her and she secretly follows him to Lamha's house. She confronted Lamha to leave Shahid alone. Lamha divulged her affection towards Shahid. Lamha and Hameed (Easa Shareef) ploys to create a scene in order to make Shahid detest Lamha. Hameed informs Shahid that Lamha is a promiscuous woman. Refusing to believe, Shahid goes to Lamha's house and witness her with another man in the darkness. Shahid apologised to Areesha and decided to move on with her. Nine months later, she gives birth to a daughter. One day when Shahid was visiting Hameed, he sees Lamha with Hameed and was disturbed to hear Lamha saying she is pleased to see Shahid is in a happy marriage because of her. Shahid suspects Hameed is hiding something from him. He later discovers from Hameed an Areesha that Lamha is in fact a slut but she is a changed woman now. 

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Alexander Bezukdalnikov, as a result of an attempt to commit suicide, suddenly finds the phenomenal ability to instantly get an answer to any question. Modest and harmless, he becomes a good game for all — women, criminal authorities and even international intelligence services. Some try to use it, others destroy it. But the little man continues to live according to the laws of his own conscience. 

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Mycroft Holmes, secretary to Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell, and his best friend Cyrus Douglas learn of disturbing reports from Douglas' birthplace Trinidad; stories of children gone missing, Douen, and Lougarou. Holmes' fiancée, Georgiana Sutton, was also raised in Trinidad and the stories terrify her enough to return home and seek answers. Holmes and Douglas follow her to the island and are confronted with dark mysteries. 

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The novel is set in a Japan that has been devastated by an unspecified man-made global catastrophe. Yoshiro, one of Tokyo's ‘aged- elderly’ at over 100 years old, lives alone with his great-grandson Mumei, who is in second grade. They live on the outskirts of the city, the city centre being too dangerous for habitation now that earth, air and water are so polluted. Over the last century, successive generations of children have been born increasingly feeble and prone to illness, so that while the aged-elderly continue to live with undiminished vitality, and seem never to die, children of Mumei's generation are intolerant to most foods, have malformed teeth due to lack of calcium, and have severely deformed bones. The distinction between male and female has started to break down, and most people change sex at least once in their lives. Most children die young. The privatised Japanese government has shut Japan off from the rest of the world. The use of foreign- language terms has been restricted, and people carefully self-censor their activities in case they find that something they have been doing all their lives has without notice suddenly become illegal. Yoshiro is a member of the underground Emissary Association, whose aim is to help selected young people stow away on foreign ships so that international scientists can research the state of Japanese children's health. Also members are Mumei's elementary school teacher and the carer of Suiren, a young girl of about Mumei's age who lives next door. Mumei finds himself fascinated with Suiren, but one day she and her carer simply disappear without leaving any forwarding address. Yoshiro says it may be due to ‘special circumstances’. Mumei collapses at school with a dreadful pain in his head, and a taste of blood. When he comes round, he realises that he is now 15 years old and that he has apparently skipped forward several years, although faint memories eventually return of being chosen as an emissary. He is in a powered wheelchair, no longer able to walk. Coming towards him in another wheelchair is a girl that he recognises as Suiren. They propel their wheelchairs rapidly down to the beach, and are thrown out next to each other as their chairs reach the sand. Suiren asks if Mumei will go with her across the sea. As he tries to stand and answer her, darkness envelops him and he falls into the dark waters of the strait. 

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The Phantom goes to a plantation owned by a Mrs Harris to find out who is killing various workers. 

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A lecturer discussing "the awareness of the self as a solitary construct" shines a red dot from a laser pointer on to a screen showing ocean waves crashing onto a shore. He instructs his audience not to follow the dot. The key, he says, is to somehow allow the pointer to act as a guide into the footage of the waves while simultaneously following one's own thought processes, one's own path. Elsewhere, people call into an office with bright red threads strung across it, reporting their whereabouts to a team of trackers. One such person, or persons, is "a crowd of people named Alan", described in a philosophical voiceover about getting taxis to random street corners whenever they are ordered to do so by the trackers. They also ponder a near-death experience, a forgotten password, and an ominous door located on the outer side of a high- rise. An experimenter is seen in a room of his own devising, designed to be a model of an information processing unit, demonstrating that the mind inside need never understand any questions or commands, nor what is written in response, which is in Chinese, a language he cannot read but does learn to write, with a tool in the form of books of instruction, which permit him to give correct answers despite not understanding them either. After going through this experience, even after having left the room, he no longer believes he understands anything he hears or says. A reclusive woman searches for the meaning behind a series of audiovisual documents that connect to alternate universes, including a tape of the Lecturer, who is later seen on the beach being bothered by a group of children whom he eventually turns into a new, albeit both frustrated and frustrating, audience—they bury him up to his head in the sand and train the laser pointer light on his head. In time, the woman finds so many items, they fill a room in her apartment and calls it the "archive", and herself its "archivist". One such document, in a voiceover by a child, tells the story of a celebrated inventor who secretly develops a red eye implant given to every person in his world; once activated, the eye shows only what he sees, so that when he is imprisoned for this, they share the view from his cell, effectively sharing his imprisonment. The archive appears to resist the woman's attempts at cataloguing and organizing it. She receives a cell phone instead of the usual document. She makes a call and follows instructions until she encounters a pair of field agents, going from place to place in a taxi, reporting their whereabouts. They welcome her as one of their own. There is a car accident which kills Alan, who, even in death, continues to morph from one body to another. Alan holds a red ball in its hand, which the archivist takes and places in her archive, which she then locks up forever. The final scene is from the viewpoint of a shelf in a room with a red ball on it. The room appears to begin to move in a rocking manner from side to side. 

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In 2015, defense attorney Takayuki Yagami investigates and successfully clears accused worker Shinpei Okubo of a murder charge. However, Okubo is arrested shortly thereafter for allegedly murdering his girlfriend. Guilt-ridden, Yagami resigns from his law firm. Three years later, Yagami has become a private detective in Tokyo's Kamurocho district and accepts investigation requests with his partner, ex-Tojo clan member Masaharu Kaito. A serial killer has been murdering yakuza members in Kamurocho and removing their eyes. Yagami accepts a murder case concerning a Matsugane clan captain, Kyohei Hamura, who is suspected of killing a Kyorei clan member using the same methods. Yagami proves Hamura's innocence, though he suspects that he is working with the killer Yagami dubs the Mole. Hamura orders him to stop investigating the Mole. Yagami returns to his office to find the Mole has killed Masamichi Shintani, his former colleague and teacher. He finds a recent call on Shintani's phone for Dr. Yoji Shono of the Advanced Drug Development Center (ADDC). He questions ADDC director Ryusuke Kido about Shintani's phone call, to no avail. After further investigation, Yagami meets construction mogul Shigeru Kajihira at a Kyorei clan hideout. Kajihira reveals a failed plan to seize land around the ADDC for redevelopment, which was foiled when researchers claimed to have discovered AD-9, a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease. Kajihira asks Yagami to investigate the death of former ADDC vice- director Toru Hashiki. Yagami is brought to the public prosecutor's office for questioning, and is informed that Kazuya Ayabe, a crooked cop who was Yagami's informant, has been arrested on suspicion of being the Mole; Yagami, however, is unconvinced. He and Kaito find Hamura hiding out in an underground illegal gambling den and question him about his connection to the Mole and other possible suspects. Yagami concludes that Dr. Shono may be organizing the murders before Hamura is rescued by Matsugane clan members. He theorizes that the Mole's killings are human experiments to test the effectiveness of AD-9, and Waku, Hashiki and Shintani's deaths were failed experiments. Yagami also theorizes that Okubo did not kill his girlfriend; Dr. Shono killed her to cover up the experiments. Kaito is taken hostage by Hamura, forcing Yagami to storm a Matsugane hideout. Yagami finds Hamura and Kaito, and defeats and captures Hamura with the help of Mitsugu Matsugane. Yagami and Matsugane transport Hamura to a Kyorei clan hideout and interrogate him, learning that Hamura worked as a human trafficker for the ADDC and helped frame Ayabe for Shintani's murder. The Mole appears and shoots at Hamura, but Matsugane shields him and is killed. Hamura reveals that the Mole is Mitsuru Kuroiwa, a detective in the Metropolitan Organized Crime division, and gives Yagami definitive evidence that the ADDC participated in Shintani's murder. During Ayabe's trial, Japanese Vice-minister of Health Kaoru Ichinose covertly arranges a hit on Kuroiwa. Kuroiwa kills his assailants and storms the ADDC. Yagami finds Kuroiwa taking Shono hostage, intending to force him to finish developing AD-9. Yagami defeats Kuroiwa and the police surround them, killing Kuroiwa when he tries to kill Shono. Shono injects himself with a new version of AD-9 and dies from its side effects after his eyes turn blue. Dr. Kido confirms Shono's human experiments at Ayabe's trial, and the blue-eye sign was why Shono had their eyes removed. The court acquits Ayabe; chief prosecutor Kunihiko Morita and Ichinose are imprisoned for their involvement and Kajihira is placed under investigation. Okubo is freed after three years on death row, and Yagami and Kaito decide to resume being ordinary private detectives. 

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There are only four characters in the play. Lili, a private detective, is attracted to Renee, a straight paleontologist who is having trouble with her marriage. Lili's sister, Mary, has schizophrenia and as a result, she robs 7-Eleven stores. Mary lives with Lili briefly, until their mother, Eleanor, returns from Central America, and Lili starts an affair with Renee. While this is happening, Mary is arrested for robbery. There is a focus on how their mother's constant traveling has affected the lives of the two sisters. 

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The plot revolves with series of flashbacks which reveals a judge's past and hidden secrets. Gyanendra, a judge lives with his wife Sarama. Being the Judge, every time of trial of similar cases he remembers his past, the truth about his questionable actions. Gyanendra always recalls when he was a popular lawyer, married to Sumoti, a suspicious and rude lady. But he had a weak feelings for his professor's daughter Sarama. One day Gyanendra's house was burnt and his first wife Sumoti dies. Gyanendra could not make any attempt to save her perhaps he was unable bear Sumati further. Thereafter he marries Sarama and becomes a judge but he realizes his crime and those past haunts him much. 

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